Re: [patch] lockdep, annotate slocks: turn lockdep off for them

[Herbert Xu]

On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 01:37:58PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> As you can see, the lock validator can easily cover completely new lock 
> types like sk_lock too, as long as the new lock type has some 
> minimalistic "works like a lock" properties. (such as owner-does-unlock)
> 
> later on i'll try the same cleanup for the mutex code too - it should be 
> possible. (that way the implementation of complex lock types can be 
> lock-validator checked too)

Yes, this looks very nice.  Thanks!
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