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SubjectRe: [RFC] workqueue: remove manual lockdep uses to detect deadlocks
On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 3:55 PM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 05:41:03PM +0900, Byungchul Park wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> This is _RFC_.
>>
>> I want to request for comments about if it's reasonable conceptually. If
>> yes, I want to resend after working it more carefully.
>>
>> Could you let me know your opinions about this?
>>
>> ----->8-----
>> From 448360c343477fff63df766544eec4620657a59e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@lge.com>
>> Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2017 17:35:07 +0900
>> Subject: [RFC] workqueue: remove manual lockdep uses to detect deadlocks
>>
>> We introduced the following commit to detect deadlocks caused by
>> wait_for_completion() in flush_{workqueue, work}() and other locks. But
>> now LOCKDEP_COMPLETIONS is introduced, such works are automatically done
>> by LOCKDEP_COMPLETIONS. So it doesn't have to be done manually anymore.
>> Removed it.
>>
>
> No.. the existing annotation is strictly better because it will _always_
> warn. It doesn't need to first observe things just right.

Right. That is exactly why I replied to TJ like:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/8/25/490

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Thanks,
Byungchul

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