Re: [PATCH 0/3] Suppress false positives triggered by workqueue lockdep annotations

From: Bart Van Assche
Date: Thu Oct 25 2018 - 11:47:50 EST


On Thu, 2018-10-25 at 17:27 +-0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
+AD4 +AD4 In my tests with kernel v4.19 I noticed that several new false positive
+AD4 +AD4 reports were generated by the workqueue lockdep annotations. This patch
+AD4 +AD4 series addresses one of these false positives.
+AD4
+AD4 I tried my best to explain why they're not false positives as far as
+AD4 lockdep is concerned, so I'd appreciate if you could address +ACo-why+ACo you
+AD4 actually think they are such.

Please read the descriptions of the individual patches. These descriptions
explain clearly which false positives are being addressed.

Bart.