linux-kernel - Re: lockdep oddity

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Date:	Wed, 6 Sep 2006 09:20:43 +0200
From:	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Daniel Walker <dwalker@...sta.com>,
	Hua Zhong <hzhong@...il.com>
Subject: Re: lockdep oddity

> > Found this will debugging some random memory corruptions that happen 
> > when CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING and CONFIG_PROFILE_LIKELY are both on. 
> > Switching both off or having only one of them on seems to work.
> 
> previously i had some weirdnesses with PROFILE_LIKELY too, they were 
> caused by it generating cross-calls from within lockdep. Do the 
> corruptions go away if you remove all likely() and unlikely() markings 
> from kernel/lockdep.c?

No, unfortunately that doesn't help. I'm also wondering why the profile
patch contains this:

+       if (ret)
+               likeliness->count[1]++;
+       else
+               likeliness->count[0]++;

This isn't smp safe. Is that on purpose or a bug?
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