On Wed, Jan 24 2024 at 20:59, Byungchul Park wrote:
Why is lockdep in the subsystem prefix here? You are changing the CPU
hotplug (not hotplus) code, right?
> cb92173d1f0 ("locking/lockdep, cpu/hotplug: Annotate AP thread") was
> introduced to make lockdep_assert_cpus_held() work in AP thread.
>
> However, the annotation is too strong for that purpose. We don't have to
> use more than try lock annotation for that.
This lacks a proper explanation why this is too strong.
> Furthermore, now that Dept was introduced, false positive alarms was
> reported by that. Replaced it with try lock annotation.
I still have zero idea what this is about.
Thanks,
tglx
