Re: [PATCH v3] lockdep: check that no locks held at freeze time

From: Mandeep Singh Baines
Date: Wed Feb 20 2013 - 18:11:40 EST


On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 2:30 PM, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 02/19, Mandeep Singh Baines wrote:
>>
>> We shouldn't try_to_freeze if locks are held. Verified that
>> I get no lockdep warnings after applying this patch and
>> "vfork: don't freezer_count() for in-kernel users of CLONE_VFORK".
>
> I believe the patch is fine.
>
> But I don't understand the changelog, unless I am totally confused
> (and I have a lot of unread emails so perhaps I missed something),
> this version do not need the changes in CLONE_VFORK.
>

Thanks for catching that. The changelog is stale. I'll resend with a
new changelog that omits that sentence.

> And, Mandeep, I'll try to answer your emails asap...
>
> Oleg.
>
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