linux-kernel - Re: [mmotm and linux-next][PATCH] irq: enclose irq_desc_lock_class in CONFIG

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Message-ID: <20081216121815.GA25019@elte.hu>
Date:	Tue, 16 Dec 2008 13:18:15 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-next <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [mmotm and linux-next][PATCH] irq: enclose irq_desc_lock_class
	in CONFIG_LOCKDEP


* KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com> wrote:

> >> > actually, this breaks the build on !SPARSEIRQ because we will use that
> >> > class in the non-sparseirq case. So we've converted a build warning to
> >> > a build failure ;-)
> >>
> >> Please give me your .config and tell me your arch. my ia64 box (ia64 is
> >> !SPARSEIRQ) can build the akpm patch.
> >
> > The expected build failure is obvious from reading the code:
> >
> >  #ifdef CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS
> >  void early_init_irq_lock_class(void)
> >  {
> >  #ifndef CONFIG_SPARSE_IRQ
> >         struct irq_desc *desc;
> >         int i;
> >
> >         for_each_irq_desc(i, desc) {
> >                 if (!desc)
> >                         continue;
> >
> >                 lockdep_set_class(&desc->lock, &irq_desc_lock_class);
> >
> > Note that it's an #ifndef sparseirq, not an #ifdef sparseirq condition.
> 
> I see. thanks.
> It seems my first proposal is better.
> 
> or, following #ifdef ?
> 
> #if defined(CONFIG_SPARSE_IRQ) || defined(CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS)
> 
>  /*
>  * lockdep: we want to handle all irq_desc locks as a single lock-class:
>  */
>  static struct lock_class_key irq_desc_lock_class;

instead of increasing the #ifdef jungle, how about removing some? For 
example is this distinction:

> >  #ifndef CONFIG_SPARSE_IRQ

really needed? We should use symmetric lock class annotations, regardless 
of how irq_desc[] is laid out.

	Ingo
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