Re: [PATCH 4/4] lockdep: Fix workqueue crossrelease annotation

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Tue Aug 29 2017 - 05:01:53 EST


On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 03:46:38PM +0900, Byungchul Park wrote:

> How does a maintainer choose a very work-around method and avoid
> problems rather than fix a root cause? I am very disappointed.

Time.. we need this sorted before we push the whole lot to Linus in the
next window. Fixing the recursive-read thing is far more work (although
Boqun did post some patches for that, which I still have to look at).