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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] mutex: add support for reservation style locks,
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Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2013 18:43:06 +0200
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On Thu, 2013-04-04 at 15:31 +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> Another big reason for having a start/end marker like you've describe
> is
> lockdep support.

Yeah, I saw how you did that.. but there's other ways of making it work
too, you could for instance create a new validation state for this type
of lock.

That said, I didn't consider lockdep too much, I first want the regular
semantics clear.