Re: irq lock inversion

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Sun Nov 08 2009 - 04:39:40 EST



* Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 06 2009, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > Read the lockdep message please, consider all the backtraces it prints,
> > it says something different.
>
> In all honesty, reading and parsing lockdep messages requires a
> special state of mind. IOW, readability is not its high point.

We frequently do patches to improve the messages but there's a hard
limit: generally the messages mirror the complexity of the underlying
locking scenario.

Unfortunately lockdep cannot pretend something is simple when it is not.
There are two ways out of that: either to simplify the underlying
locking rules, or to understand them.

Ingo
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