Re: [PATCH 0/5] lockdep: (Was: check && lockdep_no_validate)

[Oleg Nesterov]

On 01/20, Alan Stern wrote:
>
> On Mon, 20 Jan 2014, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
> > On 01/17, Alan Stern wrote:
> > >
> > > Also, take a look at commit 356c05d58af0.  It's a similar situation
> > > (not exactly the same).
> >
> > At first glance, can't __ATTR_IGNORE_LOCKDEP() use no_validate too ?
> > (ignoring the fact checkpatch.pl won't be happy). This can simplify
> > the code, it seems.
>
> Well, the macro itself doesn't specify the lockdep class.  That happens
> implicitly in sysfs_get_active(), in the call to rwsem_acquire_read().
> However, it ought to be possible to change the code so that when
> ignore_lockdep(sd) returns nonzero, we end up using no_validate.

sysfs_dirent_init_lockdep() can check ->ignore_lockdep and do
lockdep_set_novalidate_class(). This way sysfs_ignore_lockdep() can
go away.

I guess we could even change __ATTR_IGNORE_LOCKDEP() to initialize
->key = __lockdep_no_validate__ and kill ->ignore_lockdep.

Oleg.

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