Re: + lockdep-make-prove_raw_lock_nesting-depend-on-preempt_rt.patch added to mm-nonmm-unstable branch

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On Fri, Jun 17, 2022 at 07:14:45AM +0000, chenjun (AM) wrote:
> 在 2022/6/17 13:59, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior 写道:
> > On 2022-06-16 12:41:27 [-0700], Andrew Morton wrote:
> >> ------------------------------------------------------
> >> From: Chen Jun <chenjun102@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Subject: lockdep: make PROVE_RAW_LOCK_NESTING depend on PREEMPT_RT
> >> Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2022 02:29:11 +0000
> >>
> >> CONFIG_PROVE_RAW_LOCK_NESTING is used to check two things.
> >> 1. calling spin_lock in hardirq.
> >> 2. raw_spinlock - spinlock nesting.
> >> The error messages like below:
> >> [   13.485711] [ BUG: Invalid wait context ]
> >>
> >> However there is no problem on non-PREEMPT_RT kernel. The messages may be
> >> confusing and disturbing.
> >>
> >> Therefore, do not check raw_spinlock - spinlock nesting
> >> on non-PREEMPT_RT kernel.
> > 
> > This is not correct. The annotation is used to detect problems on
> > non-PREEMPT_RT kernels which occur on PREEMPT_RT. This is documented in
> > Kconfig. Letting this option depend on PREEMPT_RT renders it pointless
> > because warning are spit on PREEMPT_RT even without that option enabled.
> > 
> > Please drop that patch.
> 
> Maybe we can add some obvious description that the error messages have 
> no effect on non-PREEMPT_RT kernel?

They still need to be fixed though....



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