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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, davej@redhat.com, jboyer@redhat.com,
	tyhicks@canonical.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] hugetlbfs: lockdep annotate root inode properly
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2012 23:46:20 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1331246780.11248.451.camel@twins> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1331246669.11248.449.camel@twins>

On Thu, 2012-03-08 at 23:44 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-03-08 at 21:44 +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> > I suspect that they right thing would be to have a way to set explicit
> > nesting rules, not tied to speficic call trace. 
> 
> See might_lock() / might_lock_read(), these are used to implement
> might_fault(), which is used to annotate paths that could -- but rarely
> do -- fault.

This will of course result in a specific trace, but if you do it early
enough the trace points to your setup function, which can contain a
comment explaining things.

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-08 22:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-08  9:15 [PATCH] hugetlbfs: lockdep annotate root inode properly Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-03-08 21:02 ` Andrew Morton
2012-03-08 21:10   ` Dave Jones
2012-03-08 21:19   ` Tyler Hicks
2012-03-08 21:40     ` Andrew Morton
2012-03-08 21:49       ` Al Viro
2012-03-08 22:19         ` Andrew Morton
2012-03-08 22:33           ` Dave Jones
2012-03-08 22:45             ` Andrew Morton
2012-03-09  5:00           ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-03-09  5:03       ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-03-08 21:44   ` Al Viro
2012-03-08 22:44     ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-03-08 22:46       ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
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2012-04-16 20:28 Aneesh Kumar K.V

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