On Thu, Mar 03, 2022 at 09:36:25AM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > On Thu, Mar 03, 2022 at 02:23:33PM +0900, Byungchul Park wrote: > > I totally agree with you. *They aren't really locks but it's just waits > > and wakeups.* That's exactly why I decided to develop Dept. Dept is not > > interested in locks unlike Lockdep, but fouces on waits and wakeup > > sources itself. I think you get Dept wrong a lot. Please ask me more if > > you have things you doubt about Dept. > > So the question is this --- do you now understand why, even though > there is a circular dependency, nothing gets stalled in the > interactions between the two wait channels? I found a point that the two wait channels don't lead a deadlock in some cases thanks to Jan Kara. I will fix it so that Dept won't complain it. Thanks, Byungchul > > - Ted
