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From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>, Nicolas Boichat <drinkcat@chromium.org>
Cc: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>,
	Antti Palosaari <crope@iki.fi>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Bard Liao <bardliao@realtek.com>,
	Oder Chiou <oder_chiou@realtek.com>,
	Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@gmail.com>,
	Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>,
	alsa-devel@alsa-project.org,
	Anatol Pomozov <anatol.pomozov@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] regmap: add configurable lock class key for lockdep
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2015 07:35:20 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <559157A8.2050206@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150629142215.GE11162@sirena.org.uk>

On 6/29/2015 7:22 AM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 10:03:09PM +0800, Nicolas Boichat wrote:
>
>> regmap instances are kalloc'ed, so they cannot contain the
>> lock_class_key, which needs to be statically allocated (in .data).
>> Another option would be to preallocate a bunch of lock_class_key in
>> regmap.c, and pick from that, but that's terribly hacky...
>
> Honestly this is all starting to sound like we're having to jump through
> too many hoops for lockep (and other APIs are too from the sounds of it)
> so we should be looking at lockdep here.

lockdep assumes that there is a known lock hierarchy, at least known
to the developer.

seems like for regmap there isn't

(I would be interested to know how you avoid ABBA deadlocks btw,
can you have 2 devices, one with a hierarchy one way, and another
with the hierarchy the other way?)



  reply	other threads:[~2015-06-29 14:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-06-25  9:35 [RFC PATCH 1/2] regmap: add configurable lock class key for lockdep Nicolas Boichat
2015-06-25  9:35 ` [RFC PATCH 2/2] ASoC: rt5677: Add lockdep class to silence lockdep warnings Nicolas Boichat
2015-06-25 13:21 ` [RFC PATCH 1/2] regmap: add configurable lock class key for lockdep Arjan van de Ven
2015-06-25 14:29   ` Mark Brown
2015-06-25 15:03   ` Lars-Peter Clausen
2015-06-25 15:33     ` Mark Brown
2015-06-25 15:47       ` Lars-Peter Clausen
2015-06-25 16:08         ` Mark Brown
2015-06-26  3:16           ` Nicolas Boichat
2015-06-29 12:51             ` Nicolas Boichat
2015-06-29 12:59               ` Lars-Peter Clausen
2015-06-29 14:03                 ` Nicolas Boichat
2015-06-29 14:18                   ` Lars-Peter Clausen
2015-06-29 15:34                     ` Mark Brown
2015-06-30  4:56                       ` Nicolas Boichat
2015-06-30 11:02                         ` [alsa-devel] " Lars-Peter Clausen
2015-06-29 14:22                   ` Mark Brown
2015-06-29 14:35                     ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2015-06-29 15:32                       ` Mark Brown
2015-06-29 15:36                         ` Arjan van de Ven
2015-06-29 16:02                           ` Mark Brown
2015-06-29 14:19                 ` Mark Brown
2015-06-25 14:49 ` Mark Brown
2015-06-25 15:59 ` Lars-Peter Clausen
2015-06-26  2:34   ` Nicolas Boichat
2015-06-26  8:31     ` Lars-Peter Clausen

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