linux-kernel - Re: [RT] lockdep munching nr_list

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Date:   Thu, 16 Feb 2017 10:01:18 +0100 (CET)
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>
cc:     RT <linux-rt-users@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [RT] lockdep munching nr_list_entries like popcorn

On Thu, 16 Feb 2017, Mike Galbraith wrote:

> On Thu, 2017-02-16 at 09:37 +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > On Thu, 16 Feb 2017, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > 
> ...
> > > swapvec_lock?  Oodles of 'em?  Nope.
> > 
> > Well, it's a per cpu lock and the lru_cache_add() variants might be called
> > from a gazillion of different call chains, but yes, it does not make a lot
> > of sense. We'll have a look.
> 
> Adding explicit local_irq_lock_init() makes things heaps better, so
> presumably we need better lockdep-foo in DEFINE_LOCAL_IRQ_LOCK().

Bah.