Re: [PATCH] debug work struct cancel deadlocks with lockdep

[Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>]

On Thu, 2007-07-05 at 10:53 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> > +#ifdef CONFIG_LOCKDEP
> > +/*
> > + * HACK! This really should call lockdep_init_map() but can't
> > + * because there's no requirement to initialise work structs
> > + * at runtime. This works because subclass == 0.
> > + *
> > + * NB: because we have to copy the lockdep_map, setting .key
> > + * here is required!
> > + */
> 
> why do you consider this a hack? A static object is a static object, and 
> its own address is its key. That's what we have for like 80% of all the 
> spinlocks in the kernel. Static initialization is not as flexible as 
> dynamic initialization, but the lockdep engine handles it. Am i missing 
> something?

Well, there's nothing in lockdep that guarantees that. I'd be much more
comfortable doing that when lockdep had a STATIC_LOCKDEP_MAP_INIT()
macro that looks like my __WORK_INIT_LOCKDEP_MAP() macro because then
people changing lockdep would see that they cannot rely on
lockdep_init_map() having been called (unless subclass != 0)

johannes

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