Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 18:36:12 +0100 (CET)
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: hrtimers and lockdep (was: Re: 2.6.24-rc6: possible recursive
 locking detected)
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On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> ( trimmed CC list )
> 
> Sorry for the delay, this message seems to have gotten lost in my
> inbox :-/
> 
> On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 00:27 +0300, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> > On 01/13, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> 
> > Offtopic question. Why do we have so many lockdep stuff in timer.c and hrtimer.c ?
> > We never lock 2 bases at the same time, except in migrate_timers(). We can kill
> > double_spin_lock() and base_lock_keys[] and just use spin_lock_nested in
> > migrate_timers(), no?
> 
> Lets ask Thomas.. :-)

No objections as long as it all works :)

   tglx
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