Re: [RFC PATCH v4 01/13] ktask: add documentation

Jason Gunthorpe
2018-11-06T20:51:54Z

On Tue, Nov 06, 2018 at 12:34:11PM -0800, Daniel Jordan wrote:

> > What isn't clear is if this calling thread is waiting or not. Only do
> > this inheritance trick if it is actually waiting on the work. If it is
> > not, nobody cares.
>
> The calling thread waits. Even if it didn't though, the inheritance trick
> would still be desirable for timely completion of the job.

Can you make lockdep aware that this is synchronous?

ie if I do

mutex_lock()
ktask_run()
mutex_lock()

Can lockdep know that all the workers are running under that lock?

I'm thinking particularly about rtnl_lock as a possible case, but
there could also make some sense to hold the read side of the mm_sem
or similar like the above.

Jason