linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] seqlock,lockdep: Add lock primitives to read

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Date:	Tue, 29 Mar 2011 19:50:32 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc:	rostedt@...dmis.org, mingo@...hat.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] seqlock,lockdep: Add lock primitives to read_seqbegin().

On Tue, 2011-03-29 at 15:39 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> 
> That said, there are some out-standing issues with rw_locks and lockdep,
> Gautham and I worked on that for a while but we never persevered and
> finished it..
> 
>   http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/5/11/203 

I just did a quick rebase onto tip/master (compile tested only):

  http://programming.kicks-ass.net/sekrit/patches-lockdep.tar.bz2

That series needs testing and a few patches to extend the
lib/locking-selftest* bits to cover the new functionality.

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