netdev - Re: [PATCH v3 net-next 0/5] net: better lockdep annotations

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Date:	Thu, 09 Jun 2016 13:29:01 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	edumazet@...gle.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, dsa@...ulusnetworks.com,
	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 net-next 0/5] net: better lockdep annotations

From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Date: Thu,  9 Jun 2016 07:45:10 -0700

> Introduction of qdisc->running seqcount added lockdep false positives.
> 
> While chasing the bug, it came to me that we had a lot of copies of the
> same stuff in virtual drivers.
> 
> This patch series has the qdisc->running fix (considers that a trylock
> is attempted in lockdep terminology), and adds a generic helper so
> that we no longer have to patch many virtual drivers when a new per-device
> or per-qdisc lock is added.
> 
> Thanks to David Ahern for reporting the issue and testing my patches :)

Indeed :)

Applied, thanks Eric.