Re: [PATCH] lock assertion macros for 2.5.28

[Joshua MacDonald <jmacd@namesys.com>]

On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 04:30:47PM -0700, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> Here's the lastest version of the lockassert patch.  It includes:
>   o MUST_HOLD for all architectures
>   o MUST_HOLD_RW for architectures implementing rwlock_is_locked (only
>     ia64 at the moment, as part of this patch)
>   o MUST_HOLD_RWSEM for arcitectures that use rwsem-spinlock.h
>   o MUST_HOLD_SEM for ia64
>   o a call to MUST_HOLD(&inode_lock) in inode.c:__iget().
> 
> I'd be happy to take patches that implement the above routines for
> other architectures and/or patches that sprinkle the macros where
> they're needed.
> 
> Thanks,
> Jesse
> 

Jesse,

In reiser4 we are looking forward to having a MUST_NOT_HOLD (i.e.,
spin_is_not_locked) assertion for kernel spinlocks.  Do you know if any
progress has been made in that direction?

We have implemented a user-level testing framework for our file system and we
are already using a spin_is_not_locked() method, but these assertions are
disabled when compiled into the kernel.

-josh