linux-kernel - Re: Q. lockdep_assert_held() and lockdep

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Date:	Fri, 08 Apr 2011 15:32:30 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
To:	"J. R. Okajima" <hooanon05@...oo.co.jp>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Q. lockdep_assert_held() and lockdep_off/on()

On Fri, 2011-04-08 at 22:19 +0900, J. R. Okajima wrote:
> Hello Peter Zijlstra and Ingo Molnar,
> 
> May I ask you a question about the commit
> 	f607c66 2009-08-02 lockdep: Introduce lockdep_assert_held()
> 
> In short, should lockdep_assert_held() support ->lockdep_recursion?

Probably, however

> Its current definition is
> #define lockdep_assert_held(l) WARN_ON(debug_locks && !lockdep_is_held(l))
> 
> When someone somewhere calls lockdep_off() and executes some memory

you're not supposed to do that..


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