From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932368AbdHVJVu (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Aug 2017 05:21:50 -0400 Received: from merlin.infradead.org ([205.233.59.134]:50722 "EHLO merlin.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932205AbdHVJVt (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Aug 2017 05:21:49 -0400 Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2017 11:21:41 +0200 From: Peter Zijlstra To: Byungchul Park Cc: mingo@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@lge.com, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Dave Chinner , Tejun Heo , johannes@sipsolutions.net Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] lockdep: Make LOCKDEP_CROSSRELEASE configs all part of PROVE_LOCKING Message-ID: <20170822092141.fjmr74xhfid7vu7h@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> References: <1502960261-16206-1-git-send-email-byungchul.park@lge.com> <20170821154600.asyzqs2zg6w6o4pg@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> <20170822051438.GD20323@X58A-UD3R> <20170822075238.uyfmhgxeal2bwcdg@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> <20170822085100.GH20323@X58A-UD3R> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20170822085100.GH20323@X58A-UD3R> User-Agent: NeoMutt/20170609 (1.8.3) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 05:51:00PM +0900, Byungchul Park wrote: > On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 09:52:38AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > That wouldn't work. That annotation is to help find deadlocks like: > > > > > > mutex_lock(&A) > > > > mutex_lock(&A) > > > > flush_work(&work) > > > > I meant: > > mutex_lock(&A) > > lockdep_map_acquire_read(&work) > mutex_lock(&A) > > lockdep_map_acquire(&work) > flush_work(&work) > > I mean it can still be detected with a read acquisition in work. > Am I wrong? Think so, although there's something weird with read locks that I keep forgetting. But I'm not sure it'll actually solve the problem. But I can try I suppose.