On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 8:34 PM Wei Liu <wei....@kernel.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 07:36:38PM +0530, Madhuparna Bhowmik wrote:
> [...]
> >
> > > The surrounding code makes it pretty clear that the lock is already
> held
> > > by the time list_for_each_entry_rcu is called, yet the checking
> involved
> > > in lockdep_is_held is not trivial, so I'm afraid I don't consider this
> a
> > > strict improvement over the existing code.
> > >
> > > Actually,  we want to make CONFIG_PROVE_LIST_RCU enabled by default.
>
> I think you meant CONFIG_PROVE_RCU_LIST.
>
> I am sorry about this. Yes, I meant  CONFIG_PROVE_RCU_LIST.

> And if the cond argument is not passed when the usage of
> > list_for_each_entry_rcu()
> > is outside of rcu_read_lock(), it will lead to a false positive.
> > Therefore, I think this patch is required.
>
> Fair enough.
>
> Thank you,
Madhuparna


> Wei.
>
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