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Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 13:17:04 -0700
From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
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Subject: Re: Lockdep false positive in sysfs
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On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 02:27:26PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> Which do you prefer: temporarily dropping the lockdep annotation, or
> deferring the work to the per-task work queue?  Note that these "flush
> before returning to userspace" things aren't in the kernel yet.

It's about lockdep.  Let's not spill out to other areas unnecessarily.
I'd much prefer just working around lockdep annotation.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun