From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755987Ab3EPHc7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 May 2013 03:32:59 -0400 Received: from mail-lb0-f179.google.com ([209.85.217.179]:44787 "EHLO mail-lb0-f179.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755901Ab3EPHcy (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 May 2013 03:32:54 -0400 Message-ID: <51948BA2.4030700@kernel.org> Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 10:32:50 +0300 From: Pekka Enberg User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130311 Thunderbird/17.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sasha Levin CC: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, mingo@kernel.org, peterz@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/9] lockdep: Be nice about building from userspace References: <1368674141-10796-1-git-send-email-sasha.levin@oracle.com> <1368674141-10796-2-git-send-email-sasha.levin@oracle.com> In-Reply-To: <1368674141-10796-2-git-send-email-sasha.levin@oracle.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 05/16/2013 06:15 AM, Sasha Levin wrote: > Lockdep is an awesome piece of code which detects locking issues > which are relevant both to userspace and kernelspace. We can > easily make lockdep work in userspace since there is really no > kernel spacific magic going on in the code. > > All we need is to wrap two functions which are used by lockdep > and are very kernel specific. > > Doing that will allow tools located in tools/ to easily utilize > lockdep's code for their own use. > > Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin > Cc: penberg@kernel.org > Cc: peterz@infradead.org > Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1352753446-24109-1-git-send-email-sasha.levin@oracle.com > Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar FWIW: Acked-by: Pekka Enberg to the whole series. Pekka