Re: [RFC] seqlock,lockdep: Add lock primitives to read_seqbegin().

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Tue Mar 29 2011 - 13:48:27 EST


On Tue, 2011-03-29 at 15:39 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>
> That said, there are some out-standing issues with rw_locks and lockdep,
> Gautham and I worked on that for a while but we never persevered and
> finished it..
>
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/5/11/203

I just did a quick rebase onto tip/master (compile tested only):

http://programming.kicks-ass.net/sekrit/patches-lockdep.tar.bz2

That series needs testing and a few patches to extend the
lib/locking-selftest* bits to cover the new functionality.

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