Re: BUG-lockdep and freeze (was: Arrr! Linux 2.6.18)

From: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 21:21:17 +0100

On Sat, Sep 30, 2006 at 12:54:21PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

We need Al Viro here to put this kind of code into perspective. I _think_
he would have some choice words for code that is meant to "help"
debugging, and is this horrible.

Oh, so _that_ is what it is supposed to do? I've seen it when it went
in, tried to read, barfed and chalked it up to KDB or itanic braindamage
(both have turds of that genre). Didn't realize that lockdep used it too...
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