Re: [PATCH 1/2] lockdep: add lockdep_assert_not_held()

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Sun Feb 14 2021 - 12:54:34 EST


On Fri, Feb 12, 2021 at 04:28:42PM -0700, Shuah Khan wrote:

> +#define lockdep_assert_not_held(l) do { \
> + WARN_ON(debug_locks && lockdep_is_held(l)); \
> + } while (0)
> +

This thing isn't as straight forward as you might think, but it'll
mostly work.

Notably this thing will misfire when lockdep_off() is employed. It
certainyl needs a comment to explain the subtleties.