linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] Are you good with Lockdep?

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Date:   Thu, 12 Nov 2020 00:16:50 +0100
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc:     Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@....com>,
        torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, peterz@...radead.org,
        mingo@...hat.com, will@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        joel@...lfernandes.org, alexander.levin@...rosoft.com,
        daniel.vetter@...ll.ch, chris@...is-wilson.co.uk,
        duyuyang@...il.com, johannes.berg@...el.com, tj@...nel.org,
        tytso@....edu, willy@...radead.org, david@...morbit.com,
        amir73il@...il.com, bfields@...ldses.org,
        gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, kernel-team@....com
Subject: Re: [RFC] Are you good with Lockdep?

On Wed, Nov 11 2020 at 09:36, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org> wrote:
>> Not sure I understand the "problem 2)" outlined here, but I'm looking 
>> forward to your patchset!
>> 
> I think I understand it. For things like completions and other "wait for
> events" we have lockdep annotation, but it is rather awkward to implement.
> Having something that says "lockdep_wait_event()" and
> "lockdep_exec_event()" wrappers would be useful.

Wrappers which make things simpler are always useful, but the lack of
wrappers does not justify a wholesale replacement.

We all know that lockdep has limitations but I yet have to see a proper
argument why this can't be solved incrementaly on top of the existing
infrastructure.

That said, I'm not at all interested in a wholesale replacement of
lockdep which will take exactly the same amount of time to stabilize and
weed out the shortcomings again.

Thanks,

        tglx