linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH tip/locking/core 0/6] compiler-context-analysis: Scoped init guards

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Message-ID: <16d01754-cab9-4067-a65f-60040ac6d47e@acm.org>
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2026 10:24:08 -0800
From: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@....org>
To: Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com>, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
 Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
 Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>, Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com>,
 Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
 kasan-dev@...glegroups.com, llvm@...ts.linux.dev,
 linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH tip/locking/core 0/6] compiler-context-analysis: Scoped
 init guards

On 1/19/26 1:05 AM, Marco Elver wrote:
> This series proposes a solution to this by introducing scoped init
> guards which Peter suggested, using the guard(type_init)(&lock) or
> scoped_guard(type_init, ..) interface.
Although I haven't had the time yet to do an in-depth review, from a
quick look all patches in this series look good to me.

Thanks,

Bart.