Re: [PATCH] hugetlbfs: lockdep annotate root inode properly

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Thu, 2012-03-08 at 23:44 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-03-08 at 21:44 +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> > I suspect that they right thing would be to have a way to set explicit
> > nesting rules, not tied to speficic call trace. 
> 
> See might_lock() / might_lock_read(), these are used to implement
> might_fault(), which is used to annotate paths that could -- but rarely
> do -- fault.

This will of course result in a specific trace, but if you do it early
enough the trace points to your setup function, which can contain a
comment explaining things.
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