From: Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Louis Rilling <Louis.Rilling@kerlabs.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com
Subject: [Ocfs2-devel] [RFC][PATCH 0/3] configfs: Make nested default groups lockdep-friendly
Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 16:51:38 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080520235138.GL26609@mail.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080520153543.4bafcac9@infradead.org>
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 03:35:43PM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> not quite what I meant; what I meant is more like how sched.c deals
> with per cpu queues:
>
> (from sched.c)
>
> spin_lock_init(&rq->lock);
> lockdep_set_class(&rq->lock, &rq->rq_lock_key);
Looking at this, it's taking the address of the struct
lock_class_key as the actual key. Thus, if we tie one of these guys to
the structure we're representing, we get lock safety...except that we're
talking about i_mutex here, and we want to interact with the VFS's use
thereof.
Joel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-20 23:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-20 16:33 [Ocfs2-devel] [RFC][PATCH 0/3] configfs: Make nested default groups lockdep-friendly Louis Rilling
2008-05-20 16:33 ` [Ocfs2-devel] [RFC][PATCH 1/3] configfs: set CONFIGFS_USET_DEFAULT earlier in configfs_attach_group() Louis Rilling
2008-05-20 16:33 ` [Ocfs2-devel] [RFC][PATCH 2/3] configfs: Silence lockdep when creating nested default groups Louis Rilling
2008-05-20 16:33 ` [Ocfs2-devel] [RFC][PATCH 3/3] configfs: Silence lockdep when destroying " Louis Rilling
2008-05-20 16:58 ` [Ocfs2-devel] [RFC][PATCH 0/3] configfs: Make nested default groups lockdep-friendly Arjan van de Ven
2008-05-20 17:08 ` Louis Rilling
2008-05-20 21:56 ` Joel Becker
2008-05-20 22:14 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-05-20 22:27 ` Joel Becker
2008-05-20 22:36 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-05-20 23:51 ` Joel Becker [this message]
2008-05-21 9:20 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-05-21 9:23 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-05-21 10:25 ` Louis Rilling
2008-05-21 10:59 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-05-21 12:54 ` Louis Rilling
2008-05-21 22:09 ` Joel Becker
2008-05-21 8:13 ` Louis Rilling
2008-05-20 21:41 ` Joel Becker
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