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From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
To: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@o2.pl>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] lock debugging: fix DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON() & debug_locks_silent
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 01:51:03 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061219085103.GK21070@parisc-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061219084359.GB1731@ff.dom.local>

On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 09:43:59AM +0100, Jarek Poplawski wrote:
> I wonder why doing debug_locks_off depends here on
> debug_lock_silent state which is only "esthetical"
> flag. And debug_locks_off() takes into consideration
> debug_lock_silent after all. So IMHO:

It's not 'aesthetic' at all.  It's used to say "We are about to cause a
locking failure deliberately as part of the test suite".  It would be
wrong to disable lock debugging as a result of running the test suite.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-12-19  8:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-12-16  6:26 Doubled stack dumps during locking testsuite Matthew Wilcox
2006-12-16  8:04 ` [patch] lock debugging: fix DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON() & debug_locks_silent Ingo Molnar
2006-12-19  8:43   ` Jarek Poplawski
2006-12-19  8:51     ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2006-12-19  9:05       ` Jarek Poplawski
2006-12-19  9:31     ` Ingo Molnar
2006-12-19  9:40       ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-12-19  9:44         ` Ingo Molnar

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