Re: [PATCH] locking/lockdep: Remove the cross-release locking checks

[Theodore Ts'o]

On Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at 01:05:43PM +0900, Byungchul Park wrote:
> For example, in the case of fs issues, for now we can
> invalidate wait_for_completion() in submit_bio_wait()....

And this will spawn a checkpatch.pl ERROR:

    	      	    ERROR("LOCKDEP",
		    "lockdep_no_validate class is reserved for device->mutex.\n" . $herecurr);

This mention in checkpatch.pl is the only documentation I've been able
to find about lockdep_set_novalidate_class(), by the way. 

> ... and re-validate it later, of course, I really want to find more
> fundamental solution though.

Oh, and I was finally able to find the quote that the *only* people
who are likely to be able to deal with lock annotations are the
subsystem maintainers.  But if the ways of dealing with lock
annotations are not documented, such that subsystem maintainers are
going to have a very hard time figuring out *how* to deal with it, it
seems that lock classification as a solution to cross-release false
positives seems.... unlikely:
   
   From: Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@xxxxxxx>
   Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2017 18:27:45 +0900
   Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 72/73] xfs: Convert mru cache to XArray

   1) Firstly, it's hard to assign lock classes *properly*. By
   default, it relies on the caller site of lockdep_init_map(),
   but we need to assign another class manually, where ordering
   rules are complicated so cannot rely on the caller site. That
   *only* can be done by experts of the subsystem.

   	      	      	 	    	- Ted