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Re: [PATCH 0/2] workqueue lockdep limitations/bugs

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Hello, Johannes.

On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 02:03:15PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> 3)
> The third problem is more complicated, but it means that we likely miss a
> lot of potential locking problems with ordered workqueues, and I think we
> should really try to fix this somehow.
> 
> Let's say we again have an ordered workqueue, and the following:
> 
> work1_function
> {
> 	mutex_lock(&mutex);
> }

Regular mutexes complain when the locker isn't the unlocker already.
Do we really care about this case?

Thanks.

-- 
tejun



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