From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754840Ab3ILRl2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Sep 2013 13:41:28 -0400 Received: from aserp1040.oracle.com ([141.146.126.69]:48309 "EHLO aserp1040.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753682Ab3ILRl1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Sep 2013 13:41:27 -0400 Message-ID: <5231FCA1.4090803@oracle.com> Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 13:40:49 -0400 From: Sasha Levin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130803 Thunderbird/17.0.8 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> <51CB4328.7010006@oracle.com> <20130627090722.GC4398@gmail.com> <51CC4461.50207@oracle.com> <51DA127E.3040706@oracle.com> <20130708083914.GB3948@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20130708083914.GB3948@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Source-IP: ucsinet22.oracle.com [156.151.31.94] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 07/08/2013 04:39 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Sasha Levin wrote: > >>>> The other issue is that with lock classes disabled you have to hit an >>>> actual deadlock to trigger any output. >>>> >>>> I.e. much of the power of lockdep is diminished :-/ When actual >>>> deadlocks are triggered then it's not particularly complex to debug >>>> user-space apps: gdb the hung task(s) and look at the backtraces. >>> >>> Lock classes are disabled only if you're using the LD_PRELOAD method >>> of testing. If you actually re-compile your code with the library (by >>> just including the header and setting a #define to enable it) you will >>> have lock classes. >> >> Hi Ingo, >> >> Just wondering if you're planning on pushing it over to Linus from your >> tree, or should I go ahead and do it on my own? > > PeterZ is in favor as well so I'll apply them after the merge window, for > v3.12. Hi Ingo, Do you intend to send liblockdep in this merge window as planned? Thanks, Sasha