From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-yb0-f200.google.com (mail-yb0-f200.google.com [209.85.213.200]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BA246B0038 for ; Thu, 15 Sep 2016 13:26:32 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-yb0-f200.google.com with SMTP id z8so93284124ybh.1 for ; Thu, 15 Sep 2016 10:26:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail-it0-x231.google.com (mail-it0-x231.google.com. [2607:f8b0:4001:c0b::231]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id v123si4967187itg.41.2016.09.15.10.26.31 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 15 Sep 2016 10:26:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail-it0-x231.google.com with SMTP id 186so86171879itf.0 for ; Thu, 15 Sep 2016 10:26:31 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1473759914-17003-16-git-send-email-byungchul.park@lge.com> References: <1473759914-17003-1-git-send-email-byungchul.park@lge.com> <1473759914-17003-16-git-send-email-byungchul.park@lge.com> From: Nilay Vaish Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 12:25:51 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 15/15] lockdep: Crossrelease feature documentation Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Byungchul Park Cc: peterz@infradead.org, mingo@kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de, walken@google.com, boqun.feng@gmail.com, kirill@shutemov.name, Linux Kernel list , linux-mm@kvack.org, iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, npiggin@gmail.com On 13 September 2016 at 04:45, Byungchul Park wrote: > This document describes the concept of crossrelease feature, which > generalizes what causes a deadlock and how can detect a deadlock. > > Signed-off-by: Byungchul Park > --- > Documentation/locking/crossrelease.txt | 785 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > 1 file changed, 785 insertions(+) > create mode 100644 Documentation/locking/crossrelease.txt Byungchul, I mostly skimmed through the document. I suggest that we split this document. The initial 1/4 of the document talks about lockdep's current implementation which I believe should be combined with the file: Documentation/locking/lockdep-design.txt. Tomorrow I would try to understand the document in detail and hopefully provide some useful comments. -- Nilay -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org