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From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/8] mm/swap: Use local_lock for protection
Date: Tue, 19 May 2020 19:17:38 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200520021738.GC16070@bombadil.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200519165837.883035d3228c582b9bff1d77@linux-foundation.org>

On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 04:58:37PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 19 May 2020 22:19:08 +0200 Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> wrote:
> > +				local_lock(swapvec_lock);
> 
> It's quite peculiar that these operations appear to be pass-by-value. 
> All other locking operations are pass-by-reference - spin_lock(&lock),
> not spin_lock(lock).  This is what the eye expects to see and it's
> simply more logical - calling code shouldn't have to "know" that the
> locking operations are implemented as cpp macros.  And we'd be in a
> mess if someone tried to convert these to real C functions.

The funny thing is that the documentation gets this right:

+The mapping of local_lock to spinlock_t on PREEMPT_RT kernels has a few
+implications. For example, on a non-PREEMPT_RT kernel the following code
+sequence works as expected::
+
+  local_lock_irq(&local_lock);
+  raw_spin_lock(&lock);

but apparently the implementation changed without the documentation matching.

  reply	other threads:[~2020-05-20  2:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-19 20:19 [PATCH 0/8] Introduce local_lock() Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2020-05-19 20:19 ` [PATCH 1/8] locking: " Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2020-05-20 12:04   ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-05-22 11:05     ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2020-05-22 13:01       ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-05-19 20:19 ` [PATCH 2/8] radix-tree: Use local_lock for protection Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2020-05-19 20:45   ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-05-19 20:54     ` Steven Rostedt
2020-05-20  2:05       ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-05-20 10:13         ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2020-05-20 10:21   ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-05-20 12:28     ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-05-19 20:19 ` [PATCH 3/8] srcu: Use local_lock() for per-CPU struct srcu_data access Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2020-05-20 10:24   ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-05-20 12:06     ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2020-05-20 13:27       ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-05-20 17:42       ` Joel Fernandes
2020-05-20 18:28         ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2020-05-20 18:35           ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-05-20 18:44             ` Joel Fernandes
2020-05-20 18:50               ` Uladzislau Rezki
2020-05-20 18:59           ` Joel Fernandes
2020-05-20 18:43       ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-05-22 15:12         ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2020-05-22 17:39           ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-05-23 15:08             ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2020-05-23 16:59               ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-05-24 19:03               ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2020-05-25  3:27                 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-05-26 13:41                   ` [PATCH] srcu: Avoid local_irq_save() before acquiring spinlock_t Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2020-05-26 16:16                     ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-05-26 16:31                       ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2020-05-19 20:19 ` [PATCH 4/8] mm/swap: Use local_lock for protection Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2020-05-19 23:58   ` Andrew Morton
2020-05-20  2:17     ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2020-05-20 10:53   ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-05-19 20:19 ` [PATCH 5/8] squashfs: make use of local lock in multi_cpu decompressor Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2020-05-20 10:56   ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-05-19 20:19 ` [PATCH 6/8] connector/cn_proc: Protect send_msg() with a local lock Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2020-05-20 11:03   ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-05-19 20:19 ` [PATCH 7/8] zram: Use local lock to protect per-CPU data Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2020-05-20 11:07   ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-05-19 20:19 ` [PATCH 8/8] mm/zswap: " Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2020-05-19 21:46   ` Song Bao Hua
2020-05-20 10:26     ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2020-05-20 11:13       ` Song Bao Hua
2020-05-20 11:57         ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2020-05-20 12:01           ` Song Bao Hua

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