Re: [RFC PATCH 9/9] debugfs: free debugfs_fsdata instances

From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Tue Apr 18 2017 - 13:19:57 EST


On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 05:20:38PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Tue, 2017-04-18 at 08:17 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
>
> > > Again, no (S)RCU abuse here, just an ABBA deadlock.
> >
> > OK, please accept my apologies for failing to follow the thread.
>
> No worries - just wanted to clarify this in case I was missing
> something.
>
> > I nevertheless reiterate my advice to run at least some tests with
> > CONFIG_PROVE_RCU=y.  And yes, it would be good to upgrade lockdep
> > to find the above theoretical deadlock.
>
> Right. It won't matter for debugfs after this patchset, but it would
> indeed be nice - I failed in my attempt though :)

Hey, I was hoping! ;-)

Thanx, Paul