From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [rfc][patch] mm: lockdep page lock
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:20:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100316062032.GB22651@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100315155859.GE2869@laptop>
* Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> wrote:
> Page lock has very complex dependencies, so it would be really nice to add
> lockdep support for it.
Just wondering - has your patch shown any suspect areas of code already, in
the testing you did?
Maybe it should be test-driven for a while, in a non-append-only tree such as
-mm, to see whether it's finding real bugs.
Ingo
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-16 6:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-15 15:58 [rfc][patch] mm: lockdep page lock Nick Piggin
2010-03-15 18:08 ` Jan Kara
2010-03-16 2:21 ` Nick Piggin
2010-03-16 11:52 ` Jan Kara
2010-03-24 13:28 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-03-25 5:36 ` Nick Piggin
2010-03-25 9:40 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-03-26 3:18 ` Jamie Lokier
2010-03-26 6:54 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-03-26 11:54 ` Jamie Lokier
2010-03-24 13:54 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-03-16 6:20 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2010-03-16 6:42 ` Nick Piggin
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