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SubjectRe: lockdep oddity
> > Found this will debugging some random memory corruptions that happen 
> > when CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING and CONFIG_PROFILE_LIKELY are both on.
> > Switching both off or having only one of them on seems to work.
>
> previously i had some weirdnesses with PROFILE_LIKELY too, they were
> caused by it generating cross-calls from within lockdep. Do the
> corruptions go away if you remove all likely() and unlikely() markings
> from kernel/lockdep.c?

No, unfortunately that doesn't help. I'm also wondering why the profile
patch contains this:

+ if (ret)
+ likeliness->count[1]++;
+ else
+ likeliness->count[0]++;

This isn't smp safe. Is that on purpose or a bug?
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