Re: [PATCH 3/3] kernel/smp: add more data to CSD lock debugging

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Fri, Feb 26, 2021 at 10:12:05AM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 26, 2021 at 05:38:44PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > 
> > I hate all of this, but if this will finally catch the actual problem,
> > we can then revert all this, so sure.
> 
> OK, I will bite...  What exactly do you hate about it?

It's ugly and messy. We're basically commiting a debug session. Normally
gunk like this is done in private trees, then we find the problem and
fix that and crap like this never sees the light of day.