From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>,
torvalds@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/9] liblockdep: Wrap kernel/lockdep.c to allow usage from userspace
Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 11:38:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130510093848.GB16487@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130510091816.GC3039@dyad.programming.kicks-ass.net>
* Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Thu, May 09, 2013 at 11:58:02AM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> > kernel/lockdep.c deals with validating locking scenarios for
> > various architectures supported by the kernel. There isn't
> > anything kernel specific going on in lockdep, and when we
> > compare userspace to other architectures that don't have to deal
> > with irqs such as s390, they become all too similar.
> >
> > We wrap kernel/lockdep.c and include/linux/lockdep.h with
> > several headers which allow us to build and use lockdep from
> > userspace. We don't touch the kernel code itself which means
> > that any work done on lockdep in the kernel will automatically
> > benefit userspace lockdep as well!
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
> > ---
>
> OK, this patch is a complete fail with anything not git. Please fix it so I can
> use quilt.
The way I work that around is by making empty files a single-line empty
file, with a single \n in them.
Thanks,
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-05-10 9:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-09 15:58 [PATCH v3 0/9] liblockdep: userspace lockdep Sasha Levin
2013-05-09 15:58 ` [PATCH v3 1/9] lockdep: Be nice about building from userspace Sasha Levin
2013-05-09 15:58 ` [PATCH v3 2/9] liblockdep: Wrap kernel/lockdep.c to allow usage " Sasha Levin
2013-05-10 9:18 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-05-10 9:38 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2013-05-10 10:11 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-05-10 13:23 ` Sasha Levin
2013-05-10 14:03 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-05-10 14:11 ` Sasha Levin
2013-05-10 14:12 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-05-10 14:19 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-05-10 14:23 ` Sasha Levin
2013-05-10 13:58 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-05-09 15:58 ` [PATCH v3 3/9] liblockdep: Add public headers for pthread_mutex_t implementation Sasha Levin
2013-05-09 15:58 ` [PATCH v3 4/9] liblockdep: Add pthread_mutex_t test suite Sasha Levin
2013-05-09 15:58 ` [PATCH v3 5/9] liblockdep: Add public headers for pthread_rwlock_t implementation Sasha Levin
2013-05-09 15:58 ` [PATCH v3 6/9] liblockdep: Add pthread_rwlock_t test suite Sasha Levin
2013-05-09 15:58 ` [PATCH v3 7/9] liblockdep: Support using LD_PRELOAD Sasha Levin
2013-05-10 11:17 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-05-10 11:23 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-05-10 11:46 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-05-10 13:11 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-05-10 13:57 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-05-10 16:06 ` Sasha Levin
2013-05-10 16:21 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-05-10 16:42 ` Sasha Levin
2013-05-09 15:58 ` [PATCH v3 8/9] liblockdep: Add the 'lockdep' user-space utility Sasha Levin
2013-05-10 9:19 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-05-10 9:35 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-05-10 10:41 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-05-10 11:00 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-05-10 11:10 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-05-10 11:07 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-05-09 15:58 ` [PATCH v3 9/9] liblockdep: Add a MAINTAINERS entry Sasha Levin
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