Re: [PATCH] lockdep: Include all lock classes in all_lock_classes

[Dale Farnsworth]

On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 04:21:02PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 08:21 -0700, Dale Farnsworth wrote:
> > Add each lock class to the all_lock_classes list when it is
> > first registered.
> > 
> > Previously, lock classes were added to all_lock_classes when
> > the lock class was first used. 
> 
> > Since one of the uses of the list is to find unused locks, this didn't
> > work well.
> 
> You mean in lockdep_proc.c to generate the statistics?

Yes, that's where I noticed it.  On my platform, there was one
unused lock which was missed.
> 
> Another potential issue might be count_matching_names() generating a
> wrong class version.

I haven't looked into that issue yet.

-Dale
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