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From: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com>
To: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Cc: mingo@elte.hu, a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] lockdep: print lock name for lockdep_init_error
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 16:44:35 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111117084435.GA16757@zhy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACVXFVPo410dy5Mz_Kd3vC=iLazgg8MuPpHnMKfUbUypfXaGUg@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 04:01:16PM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Thanks for your review.
> 
> On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 2:02 PM, Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 01:34:32PM +0800, tom.leiming@gmail.com wrote:
> >> From: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
> >>
> >> This patch prints the name of the lock which is acquired
> >> before lockdep_init is called, so that user can easily find
> >> which lock trigged the lockdep init error warning.
> >
> > Should we care about that?
> 
> Yes, we should, see below.
> 
> >
> > I think lockdep_init() called early enough give more hint.
> > Such as be the first C function called by arch.
> 
> Maybe not early enough, before start_kernel is executed, arch
> asm code still can call some C function, can't it?

To me that still means 'Arch code didn't call lockdep_init()
early enough'.

But anyway, let Peter/Ingo decide it.

Thanks,
Yong

  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-17  8:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-17  5:34 [PATCH 1/2] init/main.c: execute lockdep_init as early as possible tom.leiming
2011-11-17  5:34 ` [PATCH 2/2] lockdep: print lock name for lockdep_init_error tom.leiming
2011-11-17  6:02   ` Yong Zhang
2011-11-17  8:01     ` Ming Lei
2011-11-17  8:44       ` Yong Zhang [this message]
2011-11-17  9:01         ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-11-17 21:50   ` Ryan Mallon
2011-12-06  9:41   ` [tip:core/locking] lockdep: Print lock name in lockdep_init_error() tip-bot for Ming Lei
2011-11-17  5:59 ` [PATCH 1/2] init/main.c: execute lockdep_init as early as possible Yong Zhang
2011-12-06  9:40 ` [tip:core/locking] init/main.c: Execute lockdep_init() " tip-bot for Ming Lei

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