Re: [RFC] workqueue: remove manual lockdep uses to detect deadlocks

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Wed Aug 30 2017 - 02:23:59 EST


On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 10:53:39AM +0900, Byungchul Park wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 08:57:27PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 26, 2017 at 12:49:26AM +0900, Byungchul Park wrote:
> > > > However, how would it distinguish things like flushing another work
> > >
> > > I think it must be distinguished with what it actually waits for, e.i.
> > > completion
> > > variables instead of work or wq. I will make it next week and let you know.
> >
> > So no. The existing annotations are strictly better than relying on
> > cross-release.
>
> Thank you for exaplanation but, as I already said, this is why I said
> "I don't think it's the same level currently. But, I can make it with
> some modification." to TJ:
>
> https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg1479560.html
>
> And also I mentioned we might need the current code inevitably but, the
> existing annotations are never good and why here:
>
> https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg1480173.html

I can read the words, but have no idea what you're trying to say.