linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/4] lockdep: Fix workqueue crossrelease annotation

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Message-ID: <20170829090130.m5zarou3t3tjfjlf@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net>
Date:   Tue, 29 Aug 2017 11:01:30 +0200
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@....com>
Cc:     mingo@...nel.org, tj@...nel.org, boqun.feng@...il.com,
        david@...morbit.com, johannes@...solutions.net, oleg@...hat.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-team@....com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] lockdep: Fix workqueue crossrelease annotation

On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 03:46:38PM +0900, Byungchul Park wrote:

> How does a maintainer choose a very work-around method and avoid
> problems rather than fix a root cause? I am very disappointed.

Time.. we need this sorted before we push the whole lot to Linus in the
next window. Fixing the recursive-read thing is far more work (although
Boqun did post some patches for that, which I still have to look at).