Re: [PATCH 1/8] lockdep: fix recursive read lock validation

[Bart Van Assche]

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Gautham R Shenoy <ego@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Subject: lockdep: fix recursive read lock validation
>  This means that the following sequence is now invalid, whereas previously
>  it was considered valid:
>
>   rlock(a); rlock(b); runlock(b); runlock(a)
>   rlock(b); rlock(a);

Why are you marking this sequence as invalid ? Although it can be
debated whether it is good programming practice to be inconsistent
about the order of read-locking, the above sequence can't be involved
in a deadlock.

Bart.
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