On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 04:21:06PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > > sb->s_files is converted to a lock_list. furthermore to prevent the
> > > lock_list_head of getting too contended with concurrent add
> > > operations the add is buffered in per cpu filevecs.
> >
> > NACK. Please don't start using lockdep internals in core code.
>
> what do you mean by that?
struct lock_list is an lockdep implementation detail and should not
leak out and be used anywhere else. If we want something similar it
should be given a proper name and a header of it's own, but I don't
think it's a valueable abstraction for the core kernel.
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