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From: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
To: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Shaokun Zhang <zhangshaokun@hisilicon.com>,
	Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>,
	Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Ben Dooks <ben.dooks@sifive.com>,
	Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>,
	Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>,
	Xiaoming Ni <nixiaoming@huawei.com>,
	John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH (repost)] locking/lockdep: add debug_show_all_lock_holders()
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2022 10:46:18 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YyS2aoPoC2TznZHO@boqun-archlinux> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3e027453-fda4-3891-3ec3-5623f1525e56@redhat.com>

On Fri, Sep 16, 2022 at 10:51:14AM -0400, Waiman Long wrote:
[...]
> > 
> > I'm expecting lockdep to continue working without calling printk() even after
> > one of problem patterns (e.g. circular locking dependency) was printk()ed, so that
> > debug_show_all_locks()/debug_show_all_lock_holders() can call printk() when needed.
> > 
> > Changing debug_locks behavior is a future patch. For now, this patch alone
> > will help debugging Greg's usb.git#usb-testing tree which is generating
> > many "INFO: task hung in" reports.

The default behavior today does make sense: if the system has one
deadlock it should be fixed first before searching out another. So I
expect that changing debug_locks behavior would be configurable and we
keep the default as today.

> 
> Boqun is actually working on a modularization patch to make some lockdep
> checking still active even after a lockdep bug is reported. I think he will
> take into consideration about this request.
> 

Yes, this is one of the "problems" I try to resolve while cleaning up
the lockdep.

Regards,
Boqun

> Cheers,
> Longman
> 

      parent reply	other threads:[~2022-09-16 17:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-09-16 14:15 [PATCH (repost)] locking/lockdep: add debug_show_all_lock_holders() Tetsuo Handa
2022-09-16 14:51 ` Waiman Long
2022-09-16 15:57   ` [PATCH v2] " Tetsuo Handa
2022-09-16 18:41     ` Waiman Long
2022-10-03 22:18       ` Tetsuo Handa
2022-10-04 18:09         ` Waiman Long
2022-11-14 10:05           ` Tetsuo Handa
2022-09-16 17:46   ` Boqun Feng [this message]

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