Re: [PATCH v6 05/15] lockdep: Implement crossrelease feature

[Byungchul Park]

On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 04:18:46PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 02:40:44PM +0900, Byungchul Park wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 12:17:47PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> 
> > > My complaint is mostly about naming.. and "hist_gen_id" might be a
> > > better name.
> > 
> > Ah, I also think the name, 'work_id', is not good... and frankly I am
> > not sure if 'hist_gen_id' is good, either. What about to apply 'rollback',
> > which I did for locks in irq, into works of workqueues? If you say yes,
> > I will try to do it.
> 
> If the rollback thing works, that's fine too. If it gets ugly, stick
> with something like 'hist_id'.

I really want to implement it with rollback.. But it also needs to
introduce new fields to distinguish between works which are all normal
process contexts.

I will do this with renaming instead of applying rollback.

Thank you.