linux-kernel - Re: Question on lockdep and MAX_LOCK

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Date:	Wed, 06 Feb 2013 11:46:44 -0500
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc:	Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: Question on lockdep and MAX_LOCK_DEPTH

On Wed, 2013-02-06 at 17:39 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org> wrote:

> Wondering whether we could improve lockdep to detect 'excessive' 
> lock nesting and treat it as a bug - the 'ran out of lockdep 
> entries' assert might be too detached and it might even trigger 
> in innocent, low lesting count contexts.

Probably adding a call to lockdep_printk_held_locks(current) when it
triggers, would be a good idea.

-- Steve


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