From: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
To: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: mingo@redhat.com, will.deacon@arm.com, tj@kernel.org,
longman@redhat.com, johannes.berg@intel.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 00/23] locking/lockdep: Add support for dynamic keys
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2019 14:02:05 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1550786525.31902.140.camel@acm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190214230058.196511-1-bvanassche@acm.org>
On Thu, 2019-02-14 at 15:00 -0800, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> A known shortcoming of the current lockdep implementation is that it requires
> lock keys to be allocated statically. This forces certain unrelated
> synchronization objects to share keys and this key sharing can cause false
> positive deadlock reports. This patch series adds support for dynamic keys in
> the lockdep code and eliminates a class of false positive reports from the
> workqueue implementation.
>
> Please consider these patches for kernel v5.1.
Hi Peter and Ingo,
Do you have any feedback about this patch series that you would like to share?
If none of you has the time to do a full review of this patch series before the
v5.1 merge window opens: how about queuing only the first ten patches of this
patch series for kernel v5.1? The first ten patches of this series are small and
easy to review.
Thanks,
Bart.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-02-21 22:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-02-14 23:00 [PATCH v7 00/23] locking/lockdep: Add support for dynamic keys Bart Van Assche
2019-02-14 23:00 ` [PATCH v7 01/23] locking/lockdep: Fix two 32-bit compiler warnings Bart Van Assche
2019-02-28 7:02 ` [tip:locking/core] " tip-bot for Bart Van Assche
2019-02-14 23:00 ` [PATCH v7 02/23] locking/lockdep: Fix reported required memory size (1/2) Bart Van Assche
2019-02-28 7:03 ` [tip:locking/core] " tip-bot for Bart Van Assche
2019-02-14 23:00 ` [PATCH v7 03/23] locking/lockdep: Fix reported required memory size (2/2) Bart Van Assche
2019-02-28 7:03 ` [tip:locking/core] " tip-bot for Bart Van Assche
2019-02-14 23:00 ` [PATCH v7 04/23] locking/lockdep: Avoid that add_chain_cache() adds an invalid chain to the cache Bart Van Assche
2019-02-28 7:04 ` [tip:locking/core] " tip-bot for Bart Van Assche
2019-02-14 23:00 ` [PATCH v7 05/23] locking/lockdep: Reorder struct lock_class members Bart Van Assche
2019-02-28 7:05 ` [tip:locking/core] " tip-bot for Bart Van Assche
2019-02-14 23:00 ` [PATCH v7 06/23] locking/lockdep: Make zap_class() remove all matching lock order entries Bart Van Assche
2019-02-28 7:05 ` [tip:locking/core] " tip-bot for Bart Van Assche
2019-02-14 23:00 ` [PATCH v7 07/23] locking/lockdep: Initialize the locks_before and locks_after lists earlier Bart Van Assche
2019-02-28 7:06 ` [tip:locking/core] " tip-bot for Bart Van Assche
2019-02-14 23:00 ` [PATCH v7 08/23] locking/lockdep: Split lockdep_free_key_range() and lockdep_reset_lock() Bart Van Assche
2019-02-28 7:07 ` [tip:locking/core] " tip-bot for Bart Van Assche
2019-02-14 23:00 ` [PATCH v7 09/23] locking/lockdep: Make it easy to detect whether or not inside a selftest Bart Van Assche
2019-02-28 7:07 ` [tip:locking/core] " tip-bot for Bart Van Assche
2019-02-14 23:00 ` [PATCH v7 10/23] locking/lockdep: Update two outdated comments Bart Van Assche
2019-02-28 7:08 ` [tip:locking/core] " tip-bot for Bart Van Assche
2019-02-14 23:00 ` [PATCH v7 11/23] locking/lockdep: Free lock classes that are no longer in use Bart Van Assche
2019-02-28 7:09 ` [tip:locking/core] " tip-bot for Bart Van Assche
2019-02-14 23:00 ` [PATCH v7 12/23] locking/lockdep: Reuse list entries " Bart Van Assche
2019-02-28 7:09 ` [tip:locking/core] " tip-bot for Bart Van Assche
2019-02-14 23:00 ` [PATCH v7 13/23] locking/lockdep: Introduce lockdep_next_lockchain() and lock_chain_count() Bart Van Assche
2019-02-28 7:10 ` [tip:locking/core] " tip-bot for Bart Van Assche
2019-02-14 23:00 ` [PATCH v7 14/23] locking/lockdep: Fix a comment in add_chain_cache() Bart Van Assche
2019-02-28 7:11 ` [tip:locking/core] " tip-bot for Bart Van Assche
2019-02-14 23:00 ` [PATCH v7 15/23] locking/lockdep: Reuse lock chains that have been freed Bart Van Assche
2019-02-28 7:11 ` [tip:locking/core] " tip-bot for Bart Van Assche
2019-02-14 23:00 ` [PATCH v7 16/23] locking/lockdep: Check data structure consistency Bart Van Assche
2019-02-28 7:12 ` [tip:locking/core] " tip-bot for Bart Van Assche
2019-02-14 23:00 ` [PATCH v7 17/23] locking/lockdep: Verify whether lock objects are small enough to be used as class keys Bart Van Assche
2019-02-28 7:13 ` [tip:locking/core] " tip-bot for Bart Van Assche
2019-02-14 23:00 ` [PATCH v7 18/23] locking/lockdep: Add support for dynamic keys Bart Van Assche
2019-02-26 17:17 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-02-28 7:13 ` [tip:locking/core] " tip-bot for Bart Van Assche
2019-02-14 23:00 ` [PATCH v7 19/23] kernel/workqueue: Use dynamic lockdep keys for workqueues Bart Van Assche
2019-02-28 7:14 ` [tip:locking/core] " tip-bot for Bart Van Assche
2019-02-14 23:00 ` [PATCH v7 20/23] locking/spinlock: Introduce spin_lock_init_key() Bart Van Assche
2019-02-14 23:00 ` [PATCH v7 21/23] block: Avoid that flushing triggers a lockdep complaint Bart Van Assche
2019-02-15 2:26 ` Ming Lei
2019-02-15 16:08 ` Bart Van Assche
2019-02-17 13:23 ` Ming Lei
2019-02-26 18:08 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-02-27 1:35 ` Ming Lei
2019-02-27 14:24 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-02-27 15:53 ` Ming Lei
2019-02-26 17:24 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-02-26 17:48 ` Bart Van Assche
2019-02-14 23:00 ` [PATCH v7 22/23] lockdep tests: Fix run_tests.sh Bart Van Assche
2019-02-28 7:15 ` [tip:locking/core] lockdep/lib/tests: " tip-bot for Bart Van Assche
2019-02-14 23:00 ` [PATCH v7 23/23] lockdep tests: Test dynamic key registration Bart Van Assche
2019-02-28 7:15 ` [tip:locking/core] lockdep/lib/tests: " tip-bot for Bart Van Assche
2019-02-21 22:02 ` Bart Van Assche [this message]
2019-02-22 16:26 ` [PATCH v7 00/23] locking/lockdep: Add support for dynamic keys Peter Zijlstra
2019-02-22 17:20 ` Bart Van Assche
2019-02-22 22:13 ` Peter Zijlstra
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