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[209.85.208.45]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id c21sm2463667edv.27.2021.08.19.15.32.58 for (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 19 Aug 2021 15:32:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail-ed1-f45.google.com with SMTP id i6so11117727edu.1 for ; Thu, 19 Aug 2021 15:32:58 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 2002:a2e:557:: with SMTP id 84mr13704523ljf.507.1629412367774; Thu, 19 Aug 2021 15:32:47 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20210812084348.6521-1-david@redhat.com> <87o8a2d0wf.fsf@disp2133> <60db2e61-6b00-44fa-b718-e4361fcc238c@www.fastmail.com> <87lf56bllc.fsf@disp2133> <87eeay8pqx.fsf@disp2133> <5b0d7c1e73ca43ef9ce6665fec6c4d7e@AcuMS.aculab.com> <87h7ft2j68.fsf@disp2133> <87k0kkxbjn.fsf_-_@disp2133> <0c2af732e4e9f74c9d20b09fc4b6cbae40351085.camel@kernel.org> <639d90212662cf5cdf80c71bbfec95907c70114a.camel@kernel.org> In-Reply-To: <639d90212662cf5cdf80c71bbfec95907c70114a.camel@kernel.org> From: Linus Torvalds Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2021 15:32:31 -0700 X-Gmail-Original-Message-ID: Message-ID: Subject: Re: Removing Mandatory Locks To: Jeff Layton Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" , Matthew Wilcox , Andy Lutomirski , David Laight , David Hildenbrand , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Andrew Morton , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , Borislav Petkov , "H. Peter Anvin" , Al Viro , Alexey Dobriyan , Steven Rostedt , "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Mark Rutland , Alexander Shishkin , Jiri Olsa , Namhyung Kim , Petr Mladek , Sergey Senozhatsky , Andy Shevchenko , Rasmus Villemoes , Kees Cook , Greg Ungerer , Geert Uytterhoeven , Mike Rapoport , Vlastimil Babka , Vincenzo Frascino , Chinwen Chang , Michel Lespinasse , Catalin Marinas , Huang Ying , Jann Horn , Feng Tang , Kevin Brodsky , Michael Ellerman , Shawn Anastasio , Steven Price , Nicholas Piggin , Christian Brauner , Jens Axboe , Gabriel Krisman Bertazi , Peter Xu , Suren Baghdasaryan , Shakeel Butt , Marco Elver , Daniel Jordan , Nicolas Viennot , Thomas Cedeno , Collin Fijalkovich , Michal Hocko , Miklos Szeredi , Chengguang Xu , =?UTF-8?Q?Christian_K=C3=B6nig?= , "linux-unionfs@vger.kernel.org" , Linux API , "the arch/x86 maintainers" , "" , Linux-MM , Florian Weimer , Michael Kerrisk Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 462691000098 Authentication-Results: imf07.hostedemail.com; dkim=pass header.d=linux-foundation.org header.s=google header.b=WJcRZ5EC; dmarc=none; spf=pass (imf07.hostedemail.com: domain of torvalds@linuxfoundation.org designates 209.85.208.42 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=torvalds@linuxfoundation.org X-Rspamd-Server: rspam04 X-Stat-Signature: htrno1r7kyxn41rezww3gjfioy7ibnn9 X-HE-Tag: 1629412380-57223 X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=1.2.4 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Precedence: bulk X-Loop: owner-majordomo@kvack.org List-ID: On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 2:43 PM Jeff Layton wrote: > > What sort of big, ugly warning did you have in mind? I originally thought WARN_ON_ONCE() just to get the distro automatic error handling involved, but it would probably be a big problem for the people who end up having panic-on-warn or something. So probably just a "make it a big box" thing that stands out, kind of what lockdep etc does with pr_warn("======...====\n"); around the messages.. I don't know if distros have some pattern we could use that would end up being something that gets reported to the user? Linus