linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2] workqueue lockdep limitations/bugs

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Date:   Tue, 21 Aug 2018 19:15:55 +0200
From:   Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:     Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Cc:     Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@...il.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] workqueue lockdep limitations/bugs

Hi Tejun,

> > Let's say we again have an ordered workqueue, and the following:
> > 
> > work1_function
> > {
> > 	mutex_lock(&mutex);
> > }
> 
> Regular mutexes complain when the locker isn't the unlocker already.
> Do we really care about this case?

Oh, sorry for the confusion. I was just eliding the - not very
interesting for this case - unlock. Really I should've typed up a
lock/unlock pair in all of the examples.

johannes