Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...>, Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...>, Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...>, David Miller <davem@...>, <hugh@...>, <mingo@...>, <akpm@...>, <linux-kernel@...>, <davej@...>
Ah, OK. You are fighting against nesting nazis, fair enough.
I have written a bit of code where nesting was not possible (similar to
your example, but I call those traversal locking not nesting). I just
find that
the locks should be nested when the nesting is natural. Breaking the nesting
on natural nesting locks is a bug, IMHO. But as you know, there are several
programmers out there that can not determine the difference between natural
nesting locks and non nesting locks.
By adding such a rule, those that can not tell the difference will be
making a
lot of needless noise, hence, it is best not to make any such rule.
Lesson learned. I'll now go back to debugging my code.
-- Steve
--
