On Mon, 6 Nov 2006, Roland Dreier wrote:
> > i like your idea of using lockdep to document locking hierarchies.
>
> Yes, it's definitely a cool idea. I think the current implementation
> is not that useful, since it jams all the unrelated kernel locks into
> a single ordered list, when in fact many locks simply have no ordering
> relationship at all because they're never both taken. This makes the
> list hard to read and in fact loses the information of which locks
> have been taken together.
>
> - R.
>
interesting...perhaps if we layered say the directory structure on the
list too like by the top level kernel directories drivers, kernel, mm,
net, etc. it might be more readable.
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