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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/3] lockdep: Introduce lock_acquire_might()
On Tue, Sep 05, 2017 at 11:29:13AM +0900, Byungchul Park wrote:
> From the point of view of crossrelease, we can never be aware of the
> release context in advance, until we get to the lock_release().
> However, this way we cannot report deadlocks occured at the time.
>
> Sometimes, we want to report that kind of problems, taking a risk
> generating false dependencies e.g. lock_acquire()s in workqueue code,
> which inevitably generate false ones with all acquisitions in works.
>
> It would be better to provide another primitive, lock_acquire_might()
> for that purpose so that lockdep internal can be aware of what users
> expect and get chances to enhance to avoid false ones.
>
> The primitive should:
>
> 1. work as if it's trylock, since links between lock_acquire_might()
> and later ones are only meaningful. Remind this should be used to
> do what crossrelease commit does, in advance.
>
> 2. make acquisitions by lock_acquire_might() ignored on the commit.
>

Shees, talk about ugly... Also might-lock has a different meaning.


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