Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] mm: introduce zone lock wrappers

[Dmitry Ilvokhin <d@ilvokhin.com>]

On Wed, Feb 25, 2026 at 12:14:21PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Feb 2026 14:43:03 +0000 Dmitry Ilvokhin <d@ilvokhin.com> wrote:
> 
> > Add thin wrappers around zone lock acquire/release operations. This
> > prepares the code for future tracepoint instrumentation without
> > modifying individual call sites.
> > 
> > Centralizing zone lock operations behind wrappers allows future
> > instrumentation or debugging hooks to be added without touching
> > all users.
> > 
> > No functional change intended. The wrappers are introduced in
> > preparation for subsequent patches and are not yet used.
> > 
> > ...
> >
> > +static inline void zone_lock_init(struct zone *zone)
> > +{
> > +	spin_lock_init(&zone->lock);
> > +}
> 
> Please consider renaming zone.lock to something else (_lock would be
> conventional) so that any present and future and out-of-tree
> unconverted code won't compile.
>

Thanks for suggestion, Andrew! Makes total sense to me, I'll rename lock
to _lock in v3.