The patch titled Subject: mm/slub.c: drop lockdep_assert_held() from put_map() has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is slub-drop-lockdep_assert_held-from-put_map.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/slub-drop-lockdep_assert_held-from-put_map.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/slub-drop-lockdep_assert_held-from-put_map.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm/slub.c: drop lockdep_assert_held() from put_map() There is no point in using lockdep_assert_held() unlock that is about to be unlocked. It works only with lockdep and lockdep will complain if spin_unlock() is used on a lock that has not been locked. Remove superfluous lockdep_assert_held(). Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200618201234.795692-2-bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Christopher Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/slub.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) --- a/mm/slub.c~slub-drop-lockdep_assert_held-from-put_map +++ a/mm/slub.c @@ -473,8 +473,6 @@ static unsigned long *get_map(struct kme static void put_map(unsigned long *map) __releases(&object_map_lock) { VM_BUG_ON(map != object_map); - lockdep_assert_held(&object_map_lock); - spin_unlock(&object_map_lock); } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are slub-drop-lockdep_assert_held-from-put_map.patch