linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 04/20] mm: VMA sequence count

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Date:   Mon, 25 Sep 2017 14:22:19 +0200
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     Laurent Dufour <ldufour@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:     Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>,
        paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
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        dave@...olabs.net, jack@...e.cz,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>, benh@...nel.crashing.org,
        mpe@...erman.id.au, paulus@...ba.org,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, hpa@...or.com,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        haren@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, khandual@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
        npiggin@...il.com, bsingharora@...il.com,
        Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@...ux.intel.com>,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, x86@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 04/20] mm: VMA sequence count

On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 02:38:51PM +0200, Laurent Dufour wrote:
> >  /*
> >   * well... answering your question - it seems raw versions of seqcount
> >   * functions don't call lockdep's lock_acquire/lock_release...
> >   *
> >   * but I have never told you that. never.
> >   */
> 
> Hum... I'm not sure that would be the best way since in other case lockdep
> checks are valid, but if getting rid of locked's warning is required to get
> this series upstream, I'd use raw versions... Please advice...

No sensible other way to shut it up come to mind though. Might be best
to use the raw primitives with a comment explaining why.