From: Harry Yoo <harry.yoo@oracle.com>
To: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Hao Li <hao.li@linux.dev>, Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Christoph Lameter <cl@gentwo.org>,
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] slab: distinguish lock and trylock for sheaf_flush_main()
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2026 12:11:38 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aY1E6uf75pEOf7Bq@hyeyoo> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260211-b4-sheaf-flush-v1-1-4e7f492f0055@suse.cz>
On Wed, Feb 11, 2026 at 10:42:30AM +0100, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> sheaf_flush_main() can be called from __pcs_replace_full_main() where
> the trylock can in theory fail, and pcs_flush_all() where it's not
> expected to and it would be actually a problem if it failed and left the
> main sheaf not flushed.
>
> To make this explicit, split the function into sheaf_flush_main() (using
> local_lock()) and sheaf_try_flush_main() (using local_trylock()) where
> both call __sheaf_flush_main_batch() to flush a single batch of objects.
> This will allow lockdep to verify our assumptions.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
> ---
Looks good to me,
Reviewed-by: Harry Yoo <harry.yoo@oracle.com>
--
Cheers,
Harry / Hyeonggon
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2026-02-11 9:42 Vlastimil Babka
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2026-02-12 6:48 ` Hao Li
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