Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 15 Nov 2018 10:49:17 -0800 | From | Davidlohr Bueso <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 6/7] mm: Replace spin_is_locked() with lockdep |
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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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