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

[Byungchul Park]

On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 6:01 PM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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).

As I said, it's not a problem of whether read-acquire should be used or not, of
course I thought so, for the first time. But now I see what problems are, as I
already answered to TJ. The work which makes read-acquire work well is
worth itself. But, problems we should focus on now is that manual acquire(work,
wq) should be replaced with others or removed.

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Thanks,
Byungchul