Re: [PATCH v6 1/7] kernfs: Introduce hashed mutexes to replace global kernfs_open_file_mutex.

[Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>]

Hello,

On Mon, Feb 14, 2022 at 11:03:16PM +1100, Imran Khan wrote:
> +extern struct kernfs_global_locks *kernfs_locks;
> +
> +static inline struct mutex *kernfs_open_file_mutex_ptr(struct kernfs_node *kn)
> +{
> +	int idx = hash_ptr(kn, NR_KERNFS_LOCK_BITS);
> +
> +	return &kernfs_locks->open_file_mutex[idx].lock;
> +}
> +
> +static inline struct mutex *kernfs_open_file_mutex_lock(struct kernfs_node *kn)
> +{
> +	struct mutex *lock;
> +
> +	lock = kernfs_open_file_mutex_ptr(kn);
> +
> +	mutex_lock(lock);
> +
> +	return lock;
> +}

So, splitting patches this way doesn't really help. Because this patch
introduces code which isn't used and the second patch does all the
meaningful changes. It'd be better if the first patch introduces the
interface without changing the actual locking - ie. introduce and convert to
use kernfs_open_file_mutex*() but make it return the same old global mutex,
and then the second patch adds the hashed locks and updates
kernfs_open_file_mutex*() to actually return hashed locks. This way, the
meaningful changes are split into two patches which can be verified
independently.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun