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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [RFC 1/4] lockdep: additional lock specific information when dumping locks
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 16:06:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150112150633.GD25256@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1421074631-18831-1-git-send-email-sasha.levin@oracle.com>

On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 09:57:08AM -0500, Sasha Levin wrote:
> When dumping held locks, it might be useful to get additional lock-specific
> information about each lock.
> 
> This is mainly useful to figure out who really holds each lock rather then
> who's just waiting on it, but it could be extended further or extended to
> the other lockdep users if required.

I really don't see the point in this; I would much rather have something
useful like:

 http://lwn.net/Articles/579849/

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-01-12 15:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-01-12 14:57 [RFC 1/4] lockdep: additional lock specific information when dumping locks Sasha Levin
2015-01-12 14:57 ` [RFC 2/4] locking/mutex: additional lock " Sasha Levin
2015-01-12 14:57 ` [RFC 3/4] locking/rwsem: " Sasha Levin
2015-01-12 14:57 ` [RFC 4/4] locking/spinlock: " Sasha Levin
2015-01-12 15:06 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2015-01-12 15:12   ` [RFC 1/4] lockdep: additional lock specific " Sasha Levin
2015-01-12 15:37     ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-01-12 16:06       ` Sasha Levin
2015-01-12 16:23         ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-01-13  5:18           ` Sasha Levin

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