Re: [PATCH] lock assertion macros for 2.5.31

[Jesse Barnes]

On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 11:40:10AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Well I added checks just to kmalloc, kmem_cache_alloc, __alloc_pages
> and saw a shower of bloopers during bootup.  Such as drivers/ide/probe.c:init_irq()
> calling request_irq() inside ide_lock.

Wow.  Sounds like some good code to have around.

> > Anyway, here's an updated version of the lock assertion patch.
> 
> Well I like it.  It's unintrusive, imparts useful info to the reader
> and checks stuff at runtime.

Great!

> These things are self-evident and even self-checking.  They don't need
> supporting documentation.   I'll put out a test tree RSN, include this
> in it.

Excellent.  Thanks a lot for your feedback.

Jesse