Re: [RFC][PATCH 7/7] lockdep: spin_lock_nest_lock()

David Miller
2008-08-04T21:33:22Z

From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2008 18:38:55 +0200

> On Mon, 2008-08-04 at 18:26 +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> > The only real place where lockdep is unusable in my experience is
> > preempt-RT, it grinds it to an halt during boot on 8-way before
> > reaching the shell.
>
> David Miller just did a patch that might fix that.

Peter, your patches are just as effective at making all of my 64-cpu,
128-cpu, etc. machines usable with lockdep.