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SubjectRe: [Patch v5 0/9] liblockdep: userspace lockdep
On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 06:41:15PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> liblockdep is a tiny wrapper built around kernel/lockdep.c. The aim is to
> provide the same functionality the kernel gets from lockdep to userspace.
>
> The bulk of the code here is the LD_PRELOAD support which provides users
> an easy way to test their code without having to integrate liblockdep into
> said code. Simply doing:
>
> lockdep my_app
>
> Would provide lockdep support to my_app.
>
> There is also a small test suite to test both mutexes and rwlocks, it's
> based on the tests in lib/locking-selftest.c.
>
> This entire patch series was reviewed by lockdep maintainers and accepted to
> the tip tree previously. It was pulled out so that the potential merge of
> liblockdep won't delay the rest of the commits in the tip locking tree.
>
> For some more background about this entire thing, the folks at LWN did
> an awesome overview: http://lwn.net/Articles/536363/
>

Ingo, I don't think I see anything holding this back; however I remember
reading some email about people not liking stuff like this living in the
tools/ directory or such.

Will you pick this up?


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