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SubjectRe: [PATCH v7 00/23] locking/lockdep: Add support for dynamic keys
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On Thu, 2019-02-14 at 15:00 -0800, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> A known shortcoming of the current lockdep implementation is that it requires
> lock keys to be allocated statically. This forces certain unrelated
> synchronization objects to share keys and this key sharing can cause false
> positive deadlock reports. This patch series adds support for dynamic keys in
> the lockdep code and eliminates a class of false positive reports from the
> workqueue implementation.
>
> Please consider these patches for kernel v5.1.

Hi Peter and Ingo,

Do you have any feedback about this patch series that you would like to share?
If none of you has the time to do a full review of this patch series before the
v5.1 merge window opens: how about queuing only the first ten patches of this
patch series for kernel v5.1? The first ten patches of this series are small and
easy to review.

Thanks,

Bart.

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