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SubjectRe: [PATCH] x86/resctrl: Fix potential lockdep warning
On Sun, Nov 17, 2019 at 12:13:20AM +0800, Xiaochen Shen wrote:
> Actually this fix covers all the cases of an audit of the calling paths
> of rdt_last_cmd_{clear,puts,printf}(), to make sure we only have the
> lockdep_assert_held() in places where we are sure that it must be held.

That's kinda what I suggested, isn't it?

All I meant was, not to have a

rdtgroup_kn_lock_live()

call in the code as this function does *not* unconditionally grab the
rdtgroup_mutex. And then call a function which unconditionally checks
whether the mutex is held.

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