Re: [PATCH v3 07/15] lockdep: Implement crossrelease feature

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On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 06:45:06PM +0900, Byungchul Park wrote:
> Crossrelease feature calls a lock 'crosslock' if it is releasable
> in any context. For crosslock, all locks having been held in the
> release context of the crosslock, until eventually the crosslock
> will be released, have dependency with the crosslock.
> 
> Using crossrelease feature, we can detect deadlock possibility even
> for lock_page(), wait_for_complete() and so on.
> 

Completely inadequate.

Please explain how cross-release does what it does. Talk about lock
graphs and such.

I do not have time to reverse engineer this stuff.

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