Re: Lockdep false positive in sysfs

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Fri Apr 27 2012 - 16:17:07 EST


On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 02:27:26PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> Which do you prefer: temporarily dropping the lockdep annotation, or
> deferring the work to the per-task work queue? Note that these "flush
> before returning to userspace" things aren't in the kernel yet.

It's about lockdep. Let's not spill out to other areas unnecessarily.
I'd much prefer just working around lockdep annotation.

Thanks.

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tejun
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