From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>,
mingo@elte.hu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, h.mitake@gmail.com,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>,
Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>,
Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>,
Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf lock: Fix state machine to recognize lock sequence
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 10:55:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1271840158.1776.63.camel@laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100421012651.GC7120@nowhere>
On Wed, 2010-04-21 at 03:26 +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> The max lockdep depth may
> change in the future, or become variable, so we can't relay on that.
>
Change, possible, variable unlikely, you need a memory allocation to
extend it, and memory allocation takes locks, which is not a nice thing
to do in the middle of lockdep.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-21 8:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-10 10:44 Question about lock sequence Hitoshi Mitake
2010-04-10 13:07 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2010-04-10 15:12 ` Hitoshi Mitake
2010-04-16 8:44 ` [PATCH] perf lock: Fix state machine to recognize " Hitoshi Mitake
2010-04-21 1:26 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2010-04-21 8:55 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2010-04-21 12:29 ` Hitoshi Mitake
2010-04-21 16:10 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2010-04-21 9:12 ` Hitoshi Mitake
2010-04-21 16:14 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2010-04-21 12:23 ` [PATCH v2] " Hitoshi Mitake
2010-04-22 22:54 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2010-04-27 12:55 ` [tip:perf/core] " tip-bot for Hitoshi Mitake
2010-04-10 14:01 ` Question about " Peter Zijlstra
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