On Sun, 11 Nov 2018, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
From: Lance Roy <ldr709@xxxxxxxxx> lockdep_assert_held() is better suited to checking locking requirements, since it only checks if the current thread holds the lock regardless of whether someone else does. This is also a step towards possibly removing spin_is_locked().
So fyi I'm not crazy about these kind of patches simply because lockdep is a lot less used out of anything that's not a lab, and we can be missing potential offenders. There's obviously nothing wrong about what you describe above perse, just my two cents. Thansk, Davidlohr
