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SubjectRe: [patch] lock debugging: fix DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON() & debug_locks_silent
On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 09:43:59AM +0100, Jarek Poplawski wrote:
> I wonder why doing debug_locks_off depends here on
> debug_lock_silent state which is only "esthetical"
> flag. And debug_locks_off() takes into consideration
> debug_lock_silent after all. So IMHO:

It's not 'aesthetic' at all. It's used to say "We are about to cause a
locking failure deliberately as part of the test suite". It would be
wrong to disable lock debugging as a result of running the test suite.
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