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SubjectRe: [RFC][PATCH 7/7] lockdep: spin_lock_nest_lock()
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On Mon, 2008-08-04 at 07:26 -0700, Roland Dreier wrote:
> > No more than 48 locks (mutexes, rwlocks, spinlock, RCU, everything
> > covered by lockdep) held by any one code-path; including nested
> > interrupt contexts.
>
> Does that mean that something like the new mm_take_all_locks() operation
> is going to explode if someone tries to use it with lockdep on?

Gah - yes, clearly nobody tried this.. :-/

Just looking at the code it will not only run into this limit, but it
would warn about recursion on the second file/anon vma due to utter lack
of annotation.

Why are people still developing without lockdep?

/me sad



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