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Date:	Thu, 2 May 2013 21:20:13 -0700
From:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:	Colin Cross <ccross@...roid.com>
Cc:	Linux PM list <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@...roid.com>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>, Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
	Jeff Layton <jlayton@...hat.com>,
	Mandeep Baines <msb@...omium.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 03/10] freezer: add new freezable helpers using
 freezer_do_not_count()

On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 09:17:21PM -0700, Colin Cross wrote:
> > And I *hope* the lockdep annotation is stricter than what was added
> > before.  I think it better be "no lock ever should be held at this
> > point" rather than "consider this a big lock".
> 
> The previous patch (6aa9707099c4b25700940eb3d016f16c4434360d in Linus'
> tree) already required that no locks be held, it wasn't using a lock
> annotation.

Ooh, cool.  Thanks for the pointer.  Forget about my rambling and
let's just add an unsafe version of try_to_freeze() and be done with
it.  :)

-- 
tejun
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