Re: [PATCH v3 0/8] cleanup: Introduce ACQUIRE(), a guard() for conditional locks

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Wed Jul 30 2025 - 10:10:39 EST


On Fri, Jul 11, 2025 at 04:49:24PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> Changes since v2 [1]:
> - Pick up Acks and Reviews
> - Whitespace fixups for cleanup.h changes (Jonathan)
> - Use consistent local variable style for ACQUIRE_ERR() (Jonathan)
> - Not addressed: switch to less compact style ACQUIRE_ERR()
> - Not addressed: pickup checkpatch change for ACQUIRE_ERR() style in
> this series (Alison)
> - Drop the cxl_decoder_detach() CLASS() and convert to a helper function (Jonathan)
> - Refactor attach_target() to make it easier to read (Jonathan)
>
> [1]: http://lore.kernel.org/20250619050416.782871-1-dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx
>
> For those new to this set, the motivation for this work is that the CXL
> subsystem adopted scope-based-cleanup helpers and achieved some decent
> cleanups. However, that work stalled with conditional locks. It stalled
> due to the pain points of scoped_cond_guard(). See patch1.
>
> In the interim, approaches like rwsem_read_intr_acquire() attempted to
> workaround the pain points, but started a "parallel universe" of helpers
> that is not sustainable.
>
> 0c6e6f1357cb cxl/edac: Add CXL memory device patrol scrub control feature
>
> Peter fixed all of this up in a manner consistent with existing guards.
> Take that proposal and run with it to unblock further cleanups of "goto"
> in unwind paths in the CXL subsystem.
>
> Potential follow-on work identified by this effort:
>
> - __GUARD_IS_ERR() asm helper [2]
> - Checkpatch fixups for proposed ACQUIRE_ERR() style [3]
>
> [2]: http://lore.kernel.org/20250514064624.GA24938@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [3]: http://lore.kernel.org/aGXDMZB6omShJpoj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

This series broke `make W=1` build vor clang. +Cc Nathan.

Par exemple:

/kernel/time/posix-timers.c:89:1: error: unused function 'class_lock_timer_lock_err' [-Werror,-Wunused-function]
89 | DEFINE_CLASS_IS_COND_GUARD(lock_timer);
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
/include/linux/cleanup.h:376:2: note: expanded from macro 'DEFINE_CLASS_IS_COND_GUARD'
376 | __DEFINE_GUARD_LOCK_PTR(_name, _T)
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
/include/linux/cleanup.h:358:20: note: expanded from macro '__DEFINE_GUARD_LOCK_PTR'
358 | static inline int class_##_name##_lock_err(class_##_name##_t *_T) \
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
<scratch space>:24:1: note: expanded from here
24 | class_lock_timer_lock_err
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1 error generated.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko