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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/3] Synaptics - fix lockdep warnings
On 9/15/06, Jiri Kosina <jikos@jikos.cz> wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Sep 2006, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
>
> > I understand what Ingo is saying about detecting deadlocks across the
> > pool of locks of the same class not waiting till they really clash, it
> > is really useful. I also want to make my code as independent of lockdep
> > as possible. Having a speciall marking on the locks themselves (done
> > upon creation) instead of altering call sites is the cleanest way IMHO.
> > Can we have a flag in the lock structure that would tell lockdep that it
> > is OK for the given lock to be taken several times (i.e. the locks are
> > really on the different objects)? This would still allow to detect
> > incorrect locking across different classes.
>
> Yes, but unfortunately marking the lock as 'can-be-taken-multiple-times'
> is weaker than using the nested locking provided by lockdep.
>
> i.e. if you mark a lock this way, it opens door for having deadlock, which
> won't be detected by lockdep. This will happen if the code, by mistake,
> really takes the _very same_ lock twice. lockdep will not be able to
> detect this, when the lock is marked in a way you propose, but is able to
> detect this when using the nested semantics.
>

But nested semantics breaks the notion of the locks belonging to the
same pool so both solutions have tradeoffs. I could use either one of
these as long as details are hidden and callers do not have to care.

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Dmitry
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