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From: "Dmitry Torokhov" <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
To: "Arjan van de Ven" <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: "Jiri Kosina" <jikos@jikos.cz>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Synaptics - fix lockdep warnings
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 15:11:32 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d120d5000609141211o76432bd3l82582ef3896e3be@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1158260584.4200.3.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org>

On 9/14/06, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> wrote:
>
> >
> > I think it is - as far as I understand the reason for not tracking
> > every lock individually is just that it is too expensive to do by
> > default.
>
> that is not correct. While it certainly plays a role,
> the other reason is that you can find out "class" level locking rules
> (such as inode->i_mutex comes before <other lock>) for all inodes at a
> time; eg no need to see every inode do this before you can find the
> deadlock.
>

OK, I can see that. However you must agree that for certain locks we
do want to track them individually, right?

-- 
Dmitry

  reply	other threads:[~2006-09-14 19:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-14  0:44 [PATCH 0/3] Synaptics - fix lockdep warnings Jiri Kosina
2006-09-14  0:44 ` [PATCH 1/3] " Jiri Kosina
2006-09-14  0:44   ` [PATCH 2/3] " Jiri Kosina
2006-09-14  0:44     ` [PATCH 3/3] " Jiri Kosina
2006-09-14  2:00 ` [PATCH 0/3] " Dmitry Torokhov
2006-09-14  8:43   ` Jiri Kosina
2006-09-14 13:18     ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-09-14 14:39       ` Jiri Kosina
2006-09-14 14:58         ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-09-14 15:03           ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-09-14 15:08           ` Jiri Kosina
2006-09-14 15:51             ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-09-14 16:00               ` Jiri Kosina
2006-09-14 16:18                 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-09-14 18:48                   ` Jiri Kosina
2006-09-14 18:56                     ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-09-14 19:03                       ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-09-14 19:11                         ` Dmitry Torokhov [this message]
2006-09-15  5:33                           ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-09-15 13:20                             ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-09-15 13:38                               ` Jiri Kosina
2006-09-15 13:51                                 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-09-15 13:56                                   ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-09-14 19:56                       ` Ingo Molnar

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