From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: andrea@qumranet.com
Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl, davej@redhat.com, rdreier@cisco.com,
torvalds@linux-foundation.org, jeremy@goop.org, hugh@veritas.com,
mingo@elte.hu, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, arjan@infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] workaround minor lockdep bug triggered by mm_take_all_locks
Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:57:13 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080804.145713.12569716.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080804210954.GC12464@duo.random>
From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@qumranet.com>
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 23:09:54 +0200
> On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 10:37:22PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > You're so wrong it not even funny. It reports about deadlocks before
> > they happen. All it needs is to observe a lock order violation and it
>
> Now tell me how it helps to report them... It tells me the system has
> crashed and where, it's not like I couldn't figure it out by myself
> but just noticing nothing works and all cpus are spinning in some
> spinlock slow path and pressing sysrq+t/p.
It tells you about deadlock scenerios that you haven't even encoutered
yet. It shows bugs for parallel code path sequences that have not
even occurred yet.
But I think you're beyond the point of being able to see why lockdep
is valuable. So why don't we just move on.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-04 21:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 73+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-04 13:03 [RFC][PATCH 0/7] lockdep Peter Zijlstra
2008-08-04 13:03 ` [RFC][PATCH 1/7] lockdep: Fix combinatorial explosion in lock subgraph traversal Peter Zijlstra
2008-08-05 8:34 ` David Miller
2008-08-05 8:46 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-08-13 3:48 ` Tim Pepper
2008-08-13 10:56 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-08-04 13:03 ` [RFC][PATCH 2/7] lockdep: lock_set_subclass - reset a held locks subclass Peter Zijlstra
2008-08-05 8:35 ` David Miller
2008-08-04 13:03 ` [RFC][PATCH 3/7] lockdep: re-annotate scheduler runqueues Peter Zijlstra
2008-08-05 8:35 ` David Miller
2008-08-04 13:03 ` [RFC][PATCH 4/7] lockdep: shrink held_lock structure Peter Zijlstra
2008-08-05 16:08 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-08-06 7:17 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-08-04 13:03 ` [RFC][PATCH 5/7] lockdep: map_acquire Peter Zijlstra
2008-08-04 13:03 ` [RFC][PATCH 6/7] lockdep: lock protection locks Peter Zijlstra
2008-08-04 13:03 ` [RFC][PATCH 7/7] lockdep: spin_lock_nest_lock() Peter Zijlstra
2008-08-04 14:07 ` Roland Dreier
2008-08-04 14:19 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-08-04 14:26 ` Roland Dreier
2008-08-04 14:32 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-08-04 14:53 ` Dave Jones
2008-08-04 14:56 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-08-04 16:26 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-08-04 16:38 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-08-04 17:27 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-08-04 17:46 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-08-04 17:57 ` [PATCH] workaround minor lockdep bug triggered by mm_take_all_locks Andrea Arcangeli
2008-08-04 18:48 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-08-04 18:56 ` Roland Dreier
2008-08-04 19:05 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-08-04 20:15 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-08-04 20:37 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-08-04 21:09 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-08-04 21:14 ` Pekka Enberg
2008-08-04 21:30 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-08-04 21:41 ` Andrew Morton
2008-08-04 22:12 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-08-04 21:42 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-08-04 22:30 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-08-04 23:38 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-08-05 0:47 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-08-04 21:27 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-08-04 21:54 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-08-04 21:57 ` David Miller [this message]
2008-08-05 2:00 ` Roland Dreier
2008-08-05 2:18 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-08-05 12:02 ` Roland Dreier
2008-08-05 12:20 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-08-04 18:48 ` [RFC][PATCH 7/7] lockdep: spin_lock_nest_lock() Peter Zijlstra
2008-08-04 21:32 ` David Miller
2008-08-04 18:06 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-08-04 18:54 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-08-04 19:26 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-08-04 19:31 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-08-04 19:39 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-08-04 20:16 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-10-08 15:27 ` Steven Rostedt
2008-10-08 15:43 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-10-08 16:03 ` Steven Rostedt
2008-10-08 16:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-10-08 16:53 ` Steven Rostedt
2008-10-08 15:52 ` Nick Piggin
2008-10-08 17:18 ` Steven Rostedt
2008-08-07 11:25 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-08-07 11:25 ` [RFC][PATCH 8/7] lockdep: annotate mm_take_all_locks() Peter Zijlstra
2008-08-07 11:25 ` [RFC][PATCH 9/7] mm: fix mm_take_all_locks() locking order Peter Zijlstra
2008-08-07 12:14 ` Hugh Dickins
2008-08-07 12:41 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-08-07 13:27 ` Hugh Dickins
2008-08-07 21:46 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-08-08 1:34 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-08-08 7:16 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-08-11 10:08 ` [RFC][PATCH 0/7] lockdep Ingo Molnar
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