From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>,
Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>,
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: out-of-tree module shouldn't disable lockdep
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 09:07:23 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111222170723.GI17084@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111222165952.GH17084@google.com>
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 08:59:52AM -0800, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hello, guys.
>
> 2449b8ba074 "module,bug: Add TAINT_OOT_MODULE flag for modules not
> built in-tree" added TAINT_OOT_MODULE to mark kernel which has
> out-of-tree module loaded, which might be a good idea but an
> unfortunate side effect of tainting is that it disables lockdep. So,
> now, none of my test modules is watched by lockdep. This is a bad bad
> idea. People use oot modules to write test code and disabling lockdep
> for test codes is silly. Can we please fix this?
Ingo just told me it's already fixed and scheduled for upstream, so
please forget about this thread.
Thanks.
--
tejun
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