linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 1/9] lockdep: Be nice about building from userspace

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Date:	Thu, 16 May 2013 10:32:50 +0300
From:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>
To:	Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com>
CC:	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, mingo@...nel.org,
	peterz@...radead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/9] lockdep: Be nice about building from userspace

On 05/16/2013 06:15 AM, Sasha Levin wrote:
> Lockdep is an awesome piece of code which detects locking issues
> which are relevant both to userspace and kernelspace. We can
> easily make lockdep work in userspace since there is really no
> kernel spacific magic going on in the code.
>
> All we need is to wrap two functions which are used by lockdep
> and are very kernel specific.
>
> Doing that will allow tools located in tools/ to easily utilize
> lockdep's code for their own use.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com>
> Cc: penberg@...nel.org
> Cc: peterz@...radead.org
> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1352753446-24109-1-git-send-email-sasha.levin@oracle.com
> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>

FWIW:

Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>

to the whole series.

			Pekka

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