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Date:   Fri, 13 Mar 2020 22:26:20 +0100
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To:     Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] timer: silenct a lockdep splat with debugobjects
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On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 05:00:41PM -0400, Qian Cai wrote:
> > On Mar 13, 2020, at 4:13 PM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:

> > 
> > Or, fix that random crud to do the wakeup outside of the lock.
> 
> That is likely to be difficult until we can find a creative way to not “uglifying" the
> random code by dropping locks in the middle etc just because of debugojects.

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/luto/linux.git/log/?h=random/fast

Doesn't look difficult at all.