Re: [PATCH ] workqueue: add args to workqueue lockdep name

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Fri Feb 14 2014 - 09:06:26 EST


On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 10:52:57AM +0800, Li Zhong wrote:
> Tommi noticed a 'funny' lock class name: "%s#5" from a lock acquired in
> process_one_work().
>
> Maybe #fmt plus #args could be used as the lock_name to give some more
> information for some fmt string like the above.
>
> __builtin_constant_p() check is removed (as there seems no good way to
> check all the variables in args list). However, by removing the check,
> it only adds two additional "s for those constants.
>
> Some lockdep name examples printed out after the change:
>
> lockdep name wq->name
>
> "events_long" events_long
> "%s"("khelper") khelper
> "xfs-data/%s"mp->m_fsname xfs-data/dm-3
>
> Signed-off-by: Li Zhong <zhong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Applied to wq/for-3.14-fixes.

Thanks.

--
tejun
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/