Re: [PATCH 2/2] lglock: update lockdep annotations to reportrecursive local locks

[Oleg Nesterov]

On 03/04, Michel Lespinasse wrote:
>
> Both issues are easily fixed by indicating to lockdep that lglock's local
> locks are not recursive. We shouldn't use the rwlock acquire/release
> functions here, as lglock doesn't share the same semantics. Instead
> we can base our lockdep annotations on the lock_acquire_shared
> (for local lglock) and lock_acquire_exclusive (for global lglock)
> helpers.

IOW, with this patch lglock looks like rw_semaphore for lockdep...

Again, I can't ack this change, but afaics it is fine.

Oleg.

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