Re: Stupid lockdep question...

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Wednesday 13 October 2010, Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote:
>   I have a 3rd-party module, that throws this whinge:
> 
> [   65.831296] INFO: trying to register non-static key.
> [   65.831301] the code is fine but needs lockdep annotation.
> [   65.831303] turning off the locking correctness validator.
> 
> I've identified that it's a call to down(*foo) where foo points to a kmalloc'ed
> block of memory that's memset() to all-zeros. What's the initializer/annotation
> I need to add to my code?
> 

It would be easier if you posted a link to the source, but the best
answer is problably:

- replace the semaphore with a regular mutex,
- use mutex_init to initialize it after the allocation.

	Arnd
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