Re: [PATCH v3 00/12] Enable lock context analysis

Chaitanya Kulkarni
2026-04-03T00:19:58Z

On 4/2/26 11:39, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> Hi Jens,
>
> During the most recent merge window the following patch series has been merged:
> [PATCH v5 00/36] Compiler-Based Context- and Locking-Analysis
> (https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20251219154418.3592607-1-elver@google.com/). That
> patch series drops support for verifying lock context annotations with sparse
> and introduces support for verifying lock context annotations with Clang. The
> support in Clang for lock context annotation and verification is better than
> that in sparse. As an example, __cond_acquires() and __guarded_by() are
> supported by Clang but not by sparse. Hence this patch series that enables lock
> context analysis for the block layer core and all block drivers.
>
> Please consider this patch series for the next merge window.
>
> Thanks,

This would be useful, for the series:-

Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <kch@nvidia.com>

-ck