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

From	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH v3 04/20] mm: VMA sequence count
Date	2017-09-25 14:30 +0200
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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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Re: [PATCH v3 04/20] mm: VMA sequence count Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com> - 2017-09-13 14:00 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v3 04/20] mm: VMA sequence count Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-09-13 19:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v3 04/20] mm: VMA sequence count Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com> - 2017-09-14 02:40 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v3 04/20] mm: VMA sequence count Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-09-14 10:00 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v3 04/20] mm: VMA sequence count Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com> - 2017-09-14 10:20 +0200
          Re: [PATCH v3 04/20] mm: VMA sequence count Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-09-14 11:00 +0200
            Re: [PATCH v3 04/20] mm: VMA sequence count Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com> - 2017-09-14 11:20 +0200
              Re: [PATCH v3 04/20] mm: VMA sequence count Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-09-14 11:20 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v3 04/20] mm: VMA sequence count Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com> - 2017-09-14 11:50 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v3 04/20] mm: VMA sequence count Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-09-15 14:40 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v3 04/20] mm: VMA sequence count Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2017-09-25 14:30 +0200

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