Re: [PATCH] degrade severity of lockdep printk

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 16:28 -0400, Kyle McMartin wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 09:20:54PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > 
> > Please report it in that case and get us to increase the limit.
> > 
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=489563
> 
> Although I don't really see how this can be particularly fixed, since
> any workload that allocates a struct with a lock, initializes, and then
> eventually frees it a whole bunch of times will run out of lock_lists
> won't it?

Not if the lock init site doesn't change. Modules are the big exception,
cycling modules will run you out of lockdep space..

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