Re: [PATCH 1/2] lockdep: lockdep_set_class_and_subclass

[Ingo Molnar]

* Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Add lockdep_set_class_and_subclass() to the lockdep annotations.
> 
> This annotation makes it possible to assign a subclass on lock init. 
> This annotation is meant to reduce the _nested() annotations by 
> assigning a default subclass.
> 
> One could do without this annotation and rely on lockdep_set_class() 
> exclusively, but that would require a manual stack of struct 
> lock_class_key objects.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>

thanks, this extension to lockdep.c looks good to me - provided it 
solves the problem :-)

Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>

	Ingo
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