From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752694Ab3FZTi6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Jun 2013 15:38:58 -0400 Received: from aserp1040.oracle.com ([141.146.126.69]:31794 "EHLO aserp1040.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752307Ab3FZTi5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Jun 2013 15:38:57 -0400 Message-ID: <51CB4328.7010006@oracle.com> Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 15:38:16 -0400 From: Sasha Levin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130510 Thunderbird/17.0.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ingo Molnar CC: Peter Zijlstra , torvalds@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [Patch v5 0/9] liblockdep: userspace lockdep References: <1371163284-6346-1-git-send-email-sasha.levin@oracle.com> <20130626122408.GJ28407@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> <20130626155325.GB7399@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20130626155325.GB7399@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Source-IP: acsinet22.oracle.com [141.146.126.238] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 06/26/2013 11:53 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote: >> Ingo, I don't think I see anything holding this back; however I remember >> >reading some email about people not liking stuff like this living in the >> >tools/ directory or such. >> > >> >Will you pick this up? > So I'd really be interested in how interesting/useful this is to userspace > developers? Does it work for something complex as Firefox, or Apache, to > the extent they make use of these locking APIs? So far I've tested it on Firefox, Apache, QEMU, LKVM, GCC and random smallish programs. I haven't really done full testing for each of those, but just made sure that liblockdep behaves as it supposed to. I'm guessing that with further work it will dig up actual issues. Thanks, Sasha