linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/4] [RFC] seqcount: Add lockdep functionality to seqcount/seqlock structures

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Message-ID: <5244A02C.4050700@linaro.org>
Date:	Thu, 26 Sep 2013 13:59:24 -0700
From:	John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>
To:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
CC:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>,
	Li Zefan <lizefan@...wei.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] [RFC] seqcount: Add lockdep functionality to seqcount/seqlock
 structures

On 09/26/2013 01:46 PM, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Sep 2013 11:34:22 -0700
> John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org> wrote:
>
>> @@ -156,10 +214,19 @@ static inline void write_seqcount_begin(seqcount_t *s)
>>  {
>>  	s->sequence++;
>>  	smp_wmb();
>> +	seqcount_acquire(&s->dep_map, 0, 0, _RET_IP_);
>> +}
>> +
>> +static inline void write_seqcount_begin_nested(seqcount_t *s, int subclass)
>> +{
>> +	s->sequence++;
>> +	smp_wmb();
>> +	seqcount_acquire(&s->dep_map, subclass, 0, _RET_IP_);
>>  }
> For more code reuse, I wonder if we should have:
>
> static inline void write_seqcount_begin(seqcount_t *s)
> {
> 	write_seqcount_begine_nested(s, 0);
> }
>
> -- Steve

Good idea! Done.

Thanks for the review!
-john

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