linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] lockdep: lock_set_subclass

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0808011113530.3277@nehalem.linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Fri, 1 Aug 2008 11:14:09 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
cc:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, mingo@...e.hu,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] lockdep: lock_set_subclass - reset a held lock's
 subclass



On Fri, 1 Aug 2008, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> 
> Hey, can I use this to suppress the spurious lockdep warnings I get when I try
> to hold more than one pte lock at once?

So how sure are you that they are spurious?

			Linus
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