Re: [PATCH] locking: Add WARN_ON_ONCE lock assertion

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Wed Sep 17 2014 - 08:33:07 EST



* Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 10:08:14AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >
> > * Peter Hurley <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > An interface may need to assert a lock invariant and not flood the
> > > system logs; add a lockdep helper macro equivalent to
> > > lockdep_assert_held() which only WARNs once.
> > >
> > > cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Any objection for me taking this through the TTY tree due to
> the dependancies on future tty patches that use the function in
> this patch?

Now that the patch is correct I have no objection whatsoever,
feel free!

Thanks,

Ingo
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