Re: [rfc][patch] mm: lockdep page lock

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Tue Mar 16 2010 - 02:20:56 EST



* Nick Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Page lock has very complex dependencies, so it would be really nice to add
> lockdep support for it.

Just wondering - has your patch shown any suspect areas of code already, in
the testing you did?

Maybe it should be test-driven for a while, in a non-append-only tree such as
-mm, to see whether it's finding real bugs.

Ingo
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