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

[Byungchul Park]

On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 9:38 PM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 01, 2017 at 07:16:29PM +0900, Byungchul Park wrote:
>
>> It would be gone _only_ at the time the history overrun, and then it
>> will be built again. So, you are wrong.

s/it will be built again/the acquisition will be added into the xhlock
array again/

Now, better to understand?

> How will it ever be build again? You only ever spawn the worker thread
> _ONCE_, then it runs lots and lots of works.
>
> We _could_ go fix it, but I really don't see it being worth the time and

We don't need to fix it spending time and effort. Just *revert* all your
wrong patches.

> effort, its a few isolated locks inside the kthread/workqueue code.

Please point out what I am wrong and what you want to say, *with* my
latest example. Doing it with my example would be very helpful to
understand you.

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Thanks,
Byungchul