Re: [PATCH v5 06/13] lockdep: Implement crossrelease feature

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 01:45:07PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 10:17:32PM +0900, Byungchul Park wrote:
> > +	/*
> > +	 * struct held_lock does not have an indicator whether in nmi.
> > +	 */
> > +	int nmi;
> 
> Do we really need this? Lockdep doesn't really know about NMI context,
> so its weird to now partially introduce it.

That is, see how nmi_enter() includes lockdep_off().