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SubjectRe: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 6/7] mm: Replace spin_is_locked() with lockdep
On Sun, 11 Nov 2018, Paul E. McKenney wrote:

>From: Lance Roy <ldr709@gmail.com>
>
>lockdep_assert_held() is better suited to checking locking requirements,
>since it only checks if the current thread holds the lock regardless of
>whether someone else does. This is also a step towards possibly removing
>spin_is_locked().

So fyi I'm not crazy about these kind of patches simply because lockdep
is a lot less used out of anything that's not a lab, and we can be missing
potential offenders. There's obviously nothing wrong about what you describe
above perse, just my two cents.

Thansk,
Davidlohr

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