Re: [PATCH v2] percpu: optimize locking in pcpu_balance_workfn()

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Thu, Jun 17, 2021 at 12:03:22PM -0700, Roman Gushchin wrote:
> +++ b/mm/percpu.c
> @@ -1980,6 +1980,9 @@ void __percpu *__alloc_reserved_percpu(size_t size, size_t align)
>   * If empty_only is %false, reclaim all fully free chunks regardless of the
>   * number of populated pages.  Otherwise, only reclaim chunks that have no
>   * populated pages.
> + *
> + * CONTEXT:
> + * pcpu_lock (can be dropped temporarily)
>   */

What's the shouting all about?  I would write it like this:

 * Context: Process context.  Caller must hold pcpu_lock with interrupts
 * disabled.  This function may drop the lock and re-enable interrupts if
 * it needs to sleep, but will return with the lock held and interrupts
 * disabled.