From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, arjan@infradead.org
Subject: Re: locking hierarchy based on lockdep
Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2006 21:05:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061106200529.GA15370@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0611061315380.29750@dhcp83-20.boston.redhat.com>
* Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> wrote:
> I've implemented this as a /proc file, but Ingo suggested that it
> might be better for us to simply produce an adjaceny list, and then
> generate a locking hierarchy or anything else of interest off of that
> list.... [...]
this would certainly be the simplest thing to do - we could extend
/proc/lockdep with the list of 'immediately after' locks separated by
commas. (that list already exists: it's the lock_class.locks_after list)
i like your idea of using lockdep to document locking hierarchies.
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-06 20:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-06 18:32 locking hierarchy based on lockdep Jason Baron
2006-11-06 20:05 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2006-11-06 20:21 ` Roland Dreier
2006-11-06 20:22 ` Jason Baron
2006-11-06 20:37 ` Roland Dreier
2006-11-06 20:40 ` Jason Baron
2006-11-07 23:39 ` Jason Baron
2006-11-07 23:53 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-11-08 18:04 ` Jason Baron
2006-11-09 9:15 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-11-09 18:58 ` Jason Baron
2006-11-10 9:27 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-11-08 13:08 ` Pavel Machek
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