linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 02/28] locking/lockdep: Add description and explanation in lockdep design doc

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Date:   Thu, 25 Apr 2019 16:01:10 +0200
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     Yuyang Du <duyuyang@...il.com>
Cc:     will.deacon@....com, mingo@...nel.org, bvanassche@....org,
        ming.lei@...hat.com, frederic@...nel.org, tglx@...utronix.de,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/28] locking/lockdep: Add description and explanation
 in lockdep design doc

On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 06:19:08PM +0800, Yuyang Du wrote:
> +Unlike a lock instance, a lock-class itself never goes away: when a
> +lock-class's instance is used for the first time after bootup the class gets
> +registered, and all (subsequent) instances of that lock-class will be mapped
> +to the lock-class.

That's not entirely accurate anymore. Bart van Assche recently added
lockdep_{,un}register_key().