On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 03:42:58PM -0800, Bart Van Assche wrote: > Hi Ingo and Peter, > > A known shortcoming of the current lockdep implementation is that it requires > lock keys to be allocated statically and that this key sharing can cause false > positive deadlock reports. This patch series adds support for dynamic keys in > the lockdep code. I'm not claiming that this patch series is perfect. However, > the code in this patch series survives nontrivial tests so I think it's worth > a look. Two unrelated changes in this patch series are: > - Improve the lockdep tests. > - Complain if no name has been assigned to a lock object.
Looks very good mostly, and it improves the lives of people that like modules too. Thanks for doing all that.