Re: waitqueue lockdep annotation V3

Christoph Hellwig
2018-07-17T14:54:59Z

On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 12:17:53PM -0700, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Dec 2017, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> this series adds a strategic lockdep_assert_held to __wake_up_common
>> to ensure callers really do hold the wait_queue_head lock when calling
>> the unlocked wake_up variants. It turns out epoll did not do this
>> for a fairly common path (hit all the time by systemd during bootup),
>> so the second patch fixed this instance as well.
>
> I ran into these changes because of patch 1 getting rid of ep->lock. Is
> there any reason why this series was never picked up?

I'd love to see this merged, but I never heard back about it.