Re: [patch] lockdep: annotate mm/slab.c

[Pekka Enberg]

Hi,

On 7/13/06, Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> mm/slab.c uses nested locking when dealing with 'off-slab'
> caches, in that case it allocates the slab header from the
> (on-slab) kmalloc caches. Teach the lock validator about
> this by putting all on-slab caches into a separate class.

Which lock is that? This affects only caches that cache_grow() use, so
we are really only interested in annotating kmalloc() on-slab caches
(like in the patch), not _all_, right?
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