On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 3:20 AM, Louis Rilling<Louis.Rilling@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > The downside of this is teaching lockdep about this recursive locking. Not that > simple actually... Don't we just give each thread's lock its own lock class? That's what we did for the cgroup hierarchy_mutex. > so that such cases are currently handled using a higher-level > lock that prevents races in locking the whole chain (there was one such example > for locking all vmas with KVM). IIUC, the intent here is to avoid such > higher-level lock. cgroup_mutex already fulfills the role of the higher-level lock. Paul _______________________________________________ Containers mailing list Containers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/containers
