linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/8] mm/swap: Use local

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Date:   Tue, 19 May 2020 19:17:38 -0700
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/8] mm/swap: Use local_lock for protection

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@...utronix.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.