Re: [PATCH for 2.6.24] fix workqueue creation API lockdep interaction

[Dave Young]

On Jan 15, 2008 9:04 PM, Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Dave Young reported warnings from lockdep that the workqueue API
> can sometimes try to register lockdep classes with the same key
> but different names. This is not permitted in lockdep.
>
> Unfortunately, I was unaware of that restriction when I wrote
> the code to debug workqueue problems with lockdep and used the
> workqueue name as the lockdep class name. This can obviously
> lead to the problem if the workqueue name is dynamic.
>
> This patch solves the problem by always using a constant name
> for the workqueue's lockdep class, namely either the constant
> name that was passed in or a string consisting of the variable
> name.
>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Please be careful with this patch, I haven't been able to test it so far
> because my powerbook doesn't have lockdep.

Hi,
Just for confirm, the warnings didn't trigger after applied your patch, thanks.

Regards
dave
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