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From: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: peterz@infradead.org, jamie.iles@oracle.com, penberg@kernel.org,
	acme@ghostprotocols.net, paulus@samba.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, namhyung@kernel.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [liblockdep] Re: [PATCH v2 01/11] liblockdep: remove the need for liblockdep_init
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 10:05:12 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5124E628.3020008@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130219075825.GA3741@gmail.com>

On 02/19/2013 02:58 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> wrote:
> 
>> Use a constructor in the library instead of making the user manually
>> call liblockdep_init().
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
>> ---
>>  tools/lib/lockdep/common.c                    | 2 +-
>>  tools/lib/lockdep/include/liblockdep/common.h | 1 -
>>  tools/lib/lockdep/tests/AA.c                  | 1 -
>>  tools/lib/lockdep/tests/ABBA.c                | 1 -
>>  tools/lib/lockdep/tests/ABBCCA.c              | 1 -
>>  tools/lib/lockdep/tests/ABBCCDDA.c            | 1 -
>>  tools/lib/lockdep/tests/ABCABC.c              | 1 -
>>  tools/lib/lockdep/tests/ABCDBCDA.c            | 1 -
>>  tools/lib/lockdep/tests/ABCDBDDA.c            | 1 -
>>  tools/lib/lockdep/tests/WW.c                  | 1 -
>>  tools/lib/lockdep/tests/unlock_balance.c      | 1 -
>>  tools/lib/lockdep/uinclude/linux/lockdep.h    | 1 -
>>  12 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 12 deletions(-)
> 
> Note that due to the heavy objections in the kvmtool thread I 
> have removed the tools/lib/lockdep library and tooling commits 
> from the locking tree - to be able to merge the other locking 
> commits upstream.

Understood.

> I'm pretty sad about this outcome as your code really brought 
> new development life into lockdep - if you still want to pursue 
> this approach then you might want to try it via the tools/kvm 
> tree, or via a separate project.

I'm most likely to just fold it into a standalone project since
I'm not quite certain the purpose of tools/ at this point.


Thanks,
Sasha


  reply	other threads:[~2013-02-20 15:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-10  0:39 [PATCH v2 01/11] liblockdep: remove the need for liblockdep_init Sasha Levin
2013-02-10  0:39 ` [PATCH v2 02/11] liblockdep: remove the need for liblockdep_set_thread Sasha Levin
2013-02-11 12:22   ` [tip:core/locking] liblockdep: Remove the need for liblockdep_set_thread() tip-bot for Sasha Levin
2013-02-10  0:39 ` [PATCH v2 03/11] perf: stop using liblockdep_init and liblockdep_set_thread Sasha Levin
2013-02-11 12:23   ` [tip:core/locking] perf: Stop using liblockdep_init() and liblockdep_set_thread() tip-bot for Sasha Levin
2013-02-10  0:39 ` [PATCH v2 04/11] liblockdep: fix AA test Sasha Levin
2013-02-11 12:24   ` [tip:core/locking] liblockdep: Fix the AA locking test tip-bot for Sasha Levin
2013-02-10  0:39 ` [PATCH v2 05/11] liblockdep: correct the ABCDBCDA test Sasha Levin
2013-02-11 12:25   ` [tip:core/locking] liblockdep: Correct " tip-bot for Sasha Levin
2013-02-10  0:39 ` [PATCH v2 06/11] liblockdep: rbtree support Sasha Levin
2013-02-11 12:27   ` [tip:core/locking] liblockdep: Add " tip-bot for Sasha Levin
2013-02-10  0:39 ` [PATCH v2 07/11] liblockdep: prevent multiple declarations of CALLER_ADDR0 Sasha Levin
2013-02-11 12:28   ` [tip:core/locking] liblockdep: Prevent " tip-bot for Sasha Levin
2013-02-10  0:39 ` [PATCH v2 08/11] liblockdep: keep headers declarations even if lib is disabled Sasha Levin
2013-02-11 12:30   ` [tip:core/locking] liblockdep: Keep header declarations even if the library " tip-bot for Sasha Levin
2013-02-10  0:39 ` [PATCH v2 09/11] liblockdep: support using LD_PRELOAD Sasha Levin
2013-02-11 12:31   ` [tip:core/locking] liblockdep: Support " tip-bot for Sasha Levin
2013-02-10  0:39 ` [PATCH v2 10/11] liblockdep: add tests for the LD_PRELOAD feature Sasha Levin
2013-02-11 12:32   ` [tip:core/locking] liblockdep: Add " tip-bot for Sasha Levin
2013-02-10  0:39 ` [PATCH v2 11/11] liblockdep: preload helper Sasha Levin
2013-02-11 12:33   ` [tip:core/locking] liblockdep: Add the 'lockdep' user-space utility tip-bot for Sasha Levin
2013-02-11 12:21 ` [tip:core/locking] liblockdep: Remove the need for liblockdep_init() tip-bot for Sasha Levin
2013-02-19  7:58 ` [liblockdep] Re: [PATCH v2 01/11] liblockdep: remove the need for liblockdep_init Ingo Molnar
2013-02-20 15:05   ` Sasha Levin [this message]
2013-02-20 15:46     ` Ingo Molnar
2013-02-20 16:12       ` Sasha Levin

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