Re: [PATCH] lockdep-design.txt

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Mon Oct 09 2006 - 03:00:47 EST



* Aneesh Kumar <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I was looking at lockdep-desing.txt and i guess i am confused with the
> changes with respect to fd7bcea35e7efb108c34ee2b3840942a3749cadb. It
> says
>
> + '.' acquired while irqs enabled
> + '+' acquired in irq context
> + '-' acquired in process context with irqs disabled
> + '?' read-acquired both with irqs enabled and in irq context
> +
>
>
> But the get_usage_chars() function does this for '-'
> if (class->usage_mask & LOCKF_ENABLED_HARDIRQS)
> *c1 = '-';
>
>
>
> So i guess what would be correct would be
> '.' acquired while irqs disabled
> '+' acquired in irq context
> '-' acquired with irqs enabled
> '?' read acquired in irq context with irqs enabled.
>
> Is this correct ?

indeed, that's correct.

Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>

Ingo
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