Re: Lockdep false positive in sysfs

[Tejun Heo]

On Mon, May 07, 2012 at 05:51:52PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> I guess in the end it's a question of balance.  Which has more 
> overhead, adding a few function calls here and there, or adding a new 
> flags field to every struct attribute?

Yes, and there are different types of overheads.  I'm happy to trade
some runtime memory overhead under debugging mode for lower code
complexity.  Lock proving is pretty expensive anyway.  I don't think
there's much point in trying to optimize some bytes from struct
attributes.

Thanks.

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tejun
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