Re: [RFC] Are you good with Lockdep?

[Byungchul Park]

On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 11:58:44PM +0900, Byungchul Park wrote:
> > > FYI, roughly Lockdep is doing:
> > >
> > >    1. Dependency check
> > >    2. Lock usage correctness check (including RCU)
> > >    3. IRQ related usage correctness check with IRQFLAGS
> > >
> > > 2 and 3 should be there forever which is subtle and have gotten matured.
> > > But 1 is not. I've been talking about 1. But again, it's not about
> > > replacing it right away but having both for a while. I'm gonna try my
> > > best to make it better.
> >
> > And I believe lockdep does handle 1. Perhaps show some tangible use case
> > that you want to cover that you do not believe that lockdep can handle. If
> > lockdep cannot handle it, it will show us where lockdep is lacking. If it
> > can handle it, it will educate you on other ways that lockdep can be
> > helpful in your development ;-)

1) OK. Lockdep might work with trylock well.
2) Definitely Lockdep cannot do what Cross-release was doing.
3) For readlock handling, let me be back later and give you examples. I
   need check current Lockdep code first. But I have to all-stop what
   I'm doing at the moment because of a very big personal issue, which
   is a sad thing.

Sorry for the late response.

Thank you,
Byungchul

> 
> Yes. That's the best thing I can do for all of us. I will.
> 
> I already did exactly the same thing while I was developing cross-release.
> But I'm willing to do it again with the current Lockdep code.
> 
> But not today. It's over mid-night. Good night~
> 
> -- 
> Thanks,
> Byungchul