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SubjectRe: How to avoid spurious lockdep warnings?
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On Thu, 2008-03-20 at 16:02 -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> In a Xen system, when a new pagetable is about to be put in use it is
> "pinned", meaning that each page in the pagetable is registered with the
> hypervisor. This is done in arch/x86/xen/mmu.c:pin_page().
>
> In order to make this efficient, the hypercalls for pinning are batched,
> so that multiple pages are submitted at once in a single multicall.
> While a page is batched pending the hypercall, its corresponding
> pte_lock is held.
>
> This means that the code can end up holding multiple pte locks at once,
> though it is guaranteed to never try to hold the same lock at once.
> However, because these locks are in the same lock class, I get a
> spurious warning from lockdep. Is there some way I can get rid of this
> warning?

How many locks at once?



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