netdev - Re: [PATCH bpf-next 1/4] bpf: fix lockdep false positive in percpu

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Message-ID: <20190130192752.rvpi2ul26543oax7@ast-mbp.dhcp.thefacebook.com>
Date:   Wed, 30 Jan 2019 11:27:54 -0800
From:   Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:     Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>, davem@...emloft.net,
        daniel@...earbox.net, edumazet@...gle.com, jannh@...gle.com,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, kernel-team@...com
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next 1/4] bpf: fix lockdep false positive in
 percpu_freelist

On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 11:21:26AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 08:04:55PM -0800, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> > 
> > It has been explained that is a false positive here:
> > https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/7/25/756
> 
> Please, no external references like that. The best option is to fully

I strongly disagree.
We allowed all kinds of external links in bpf tree in the past and
going to continue doing so in the future.
I'm perfectly aware that some of them will go stale in a day or
in a year.