From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755985Ab1KPLA4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Nov 2011 06:00:56 -0500 Received: from e32.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.150]:56032 "EHLO e32.co.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755781Ab1KPLAz (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Nov 2011 06:00:55 -0500 From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" To: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel Subject: Re: [PATCH] lockdep: Don't disable lockdep for out of tree modules In-Reply-To: <1321433203.1421.69.camel@twins> References: <1321429835-1466-1-git-send-email-aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <1321433203.1421.69.camel@twins> User-Agent: Notmuch/0.9+73~ged20210 (http://notmuchmail.org) Emacs/23.3.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 16:30:28 +0530 Message-ID: <87obwcl4c3.fsf@linux.vnet.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii x-cbid: 11111611-3270-0000-0000-000001CCAE39 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 16 Nov 2011 09:46:43 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Wed, 2011-11-16 at 13:20 +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote: > > From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" > > > > I guess it would be nice to get lockdep enabled for out of tree GPL modules > > How about you get them in staging instead? > I actually wanted to do a sample module to demo lockdep in one of the presentation i am doing and that is when i hit the issue. I don't have a kernel module that i would like to keep out of tree. I am not sure there is any value in disabling lockdep if one load an out of tree GPL kernel module. -aneesh