From: "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org>
To: Dmitry Ilvokhin <d@ilvokhin.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>,
"Liam R. Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>, Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>,
Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>,
Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com>, Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>,
Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>,
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>,
Pavel Machek <pavel@kernel.org>, Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>,
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Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>,
Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org,
"linux-cxl@vger.kernel.orgkernel-team"@meta.com,
SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 4/5] mm: rename zone->lock to zone->_lock
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2026 21:40:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1a65d41c-316a-4fd2-9a7d-146644029738@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d61500c5784c64e971f4d328c57639303c475f81.1772206930.git.d@ilvokhin.com>
On 2/27/26 17:00, Dmitry Ilvokhin wrote:
> This intentionally breaks direct users of zone->lock at compile time so
> all call sites are converted to the zone lock wrappers. Without the
> rename, present and future out-of-tree code could continue using
> spin_lock(&zone->lock) and bypass the wrappers and tracing
> infrastructure.
>
> No functional change intended.
>
> Suggested-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Ilvokhin <d@ilvokhin.com>
> Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
> Acked-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
> ---
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
--
Cheers,
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-02-27 20:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-02-27 16:00 [PATCH v4 0/5] mm: zone lock tracepoint instrumentation Dmitry Ilvokhin
2026-02-27 16:00 ` [PATCH v4 1/5] mm: introduce zone lock wrappers Dmitry Ilvokhin
2026-02-27 20:36 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-02-27 16:00 ` [PATCH v4 2/5] mm: convert zone lock users to wrappers Dmitry Ilvokhin
2026-02-27 20:39 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-02-27 16:00 ` [PATCH v4 3/5] mm: convert compaction to zone lock wrappers Dmitry Ilvokhin
2026-02-27 20:39 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-02-27 16:00 ` [PATCH v4 4/5] mm: rename zone->lock to zone->_lock Dmitry Ilvokhin
2026-02-27 20:40 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm) [this message]
2026-02-27 16:00 ` [PATCH v4 5/5] mm: add tracepoints for zone lock Dmitry Ilvokhin
2026-02-27 19:46 ` Steven Rostedt
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