Re: Lockdep question regarding two-level locks

[Michel Lespinasse]

On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 9:04 AM Michel Lespinasse <walken@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> - B's implementation could, when lockdep is enabled, always release
> lock A before acquiring lock B. This is not ideal though, since this
> would hinder testing of the not-blocked code path in the acquire
> sequence.

Actually, this may be an acceptable way to handle my issue. In the
non-blocking case, B's implementation does not have to actually
release A, but it could tell lockdep that it's released A, acquired B
and acquired A again. Kinda ugly but should work...

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Michel "Walken" Lespinasse
A program is never fully debugged until the last user dies.