linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] lockdep: lockdep_set_class_and

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <20060926115404.GA18283@elte.hu>
Date:	Tue, 26 Sep 2006 13:54:04 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Cc:	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jiri Kosina <jikos@...os.cz>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] lockdep: lockdep_set_class_and_subclass


* Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl> wrote:

> Add lockdep_set_class_and_subclass() to the lockdep annotations.
> 
> This annotation makes it possible to assign a subclass on lock init. 
> This annotation is meant to reduce the _nested() annotations by 
> assigning a default subclass.
> 
> One could do without this annotation and rely on lockdep_set_class() 
> exclusively, but that would require a manual stack of struct 
> lock_class_key objects.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>

thanks, this extension to lockdep.c looks good to me - provided it 
solves the problem :-)

Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>

	Ingo
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/