[PATCH v3 04/20] mm: VMA sequence count

Peter Zijlstra peterz at infradead.org
Mon Sep 25 22:22:19 AEST 2017


On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 02:38:51PM +0200, Laurent Dufour wrote:
> >  /*
> >   * well... answering your question - it seems raw versions of seqcount
> >   * functions don't call lockdep's lock_acquire/lock_release...
> >   *
> >   * but I have never told you that. never.
> >   */
> 
> Hum... I'm not sure that would be the best way since in other case lockdep
> checks are valid, but if getting rid of locked's warning is required to get
> this series upstream, I'd use raw versions... Please advice...

No sensible other way to shut it up come to mind though. Might be best
to use the raw primitives with a comment explaining why.


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