Re: [PATCH] timer: silenct a lockdep splat with debugobjects

[Qian Cai]

> On Mar 13, 2020, at 10:53 PM, Qian Cai <cai@xxxxxx> wrote:
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>> On Mar 13, 2020, at 5:26 PM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 05:00:41PM -0400, Qian Cai wrote:
>>>> On Mar 13, 2020, at 4:13 PM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>>>> Or, fix that random crud to do the wakeup outside of the lock.
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>>> That is likely to be difficult until we can find a creative way to not âuglifying" the
>>> random code by dropping locks in the middle etc just because of debugojects.
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>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/luto/linux.git/log/?h=random/fast
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>> Doesn't look difficult at all.
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> Great. I cherry-picked the first two patches,
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> random: Consolidate entropy batches for u32 and u64
> random: Remove batched entropy locking
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> which solved the issue here as well.
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> Andy, may I ask what your plan to post those?

Andy, do you mind me posting those 2 patches to Ted on your behalf if you have
no plan to do this in the near future?