From: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
Marco Elver <elver@google.com>,
Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Subject: [PATCH v4 00/12] Enable lock context analysis
Date: Mon, 11 May 2026 09:30:42 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260511163100.1887263-1-bvanassche@acm.org> (raw)
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.
Please consider this patch series for the next merge window.
Thanks,
Bart.
Changes compared to v3:
- Replaced the "block/bdev: Annotate the blk_holder_ops callback invocations"
patch with a patch that adds __releases() annotations to the function
pointers in struct blk_holder_ops.
- Dropped the blk-zoned patch since a better patch from Christoph has
been merged.
Changes compared to v2:
- Retained the block layer core patches and left out the block driver patches.
- Inlined blkg_conf_open_bdev_frozen() and blkg_conf_close_bdev_frozen().
- In blkg_conf_open_bdev(), added a return statement if the
WARN_ON_ONCE() statement triggers.
- Replaced the "block/ioctl: Add lock context annotations" patch with a
__release() annotation.
- Replaced the blk-zoned patch with a patch from Christoph.
Changes compared to v1:
- Rebased this patch series on top of Jens' for-next branch.
- Included two patches that split blkg_conf_prep() and blkg_conf_exit().
- Modified how patches are split. Split the block layer core patch into
multiple patches and moved the CONTEXT_ANALYSIS := y assignments into the
block driver patches.
- Made the new source code comments easier to comprehend.
- Introduced macros in the mq-deadline and Kyber I/O schedulers to make the
__acquires() expressions easier to read.
- Removed the changes from this series that are not block layer changes.
Bart Van Assche (12):
block: Annotate the queue limits functions
block/bdev: Annotate the blk_holder_ops callback functions
block/cgroup: Split blkg_conf_prep()
block/cgroup: Split blkg_conf_exit()
block/cgroup: Improve lock context annotations
block/cgroup: Inline blkg_conf_{open,close}_bdev_frozen()
block/crypto: Annotate the crypto functions
block/blk-iocost: Add lock context annotations
block/blk-mq-debugfs: Improve lock context annotations
block/kyber: Make the lock context annotations compatible with Clang
block/mq-deadline: Make the lock context annotations compatible with
Clang
block: Enable lock context analysis
block/Makefile | 2 +
block/bfq-cgroup.c | 11 ++++-
block/blk-cgroup.c | 98 ++++++++++----------------------------
block/blk-cgroup.h | 13 +++--
block/blk-crypto-profile.c | 2 +
block/blk-iocost.c | 96 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
block/blk-iolatency.c | 19 ++++----
block/blk-mq-debugfs.c | 12 ++---
block/blk-throttle.c | 34 +++++++------
block/blk.h | 4 ++
block/kyber-iosched.c | 7 ++-
block/mq-deadline.c | 12 +++--
include/linux/blkdev.h | 21 +++++---
13 files changed, 173 insertions(+), 158 deletions(-)
next reply other threads:[~2026-05-11 16:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-05-11 16:30 Bart Van Assche [this message]
2026-05-11 16:30 ` [PATCH v4 01/12] block: Annotate the queue limits functions Bart Van Assche
2026-05-11 16:30 ` [PATCH v4 02/12] block/bdev: Annotate the blk_holder_ops callback functions Bart Van Assche
2026-05-11 22:19 ` Marco Elver
2026-05-12 19:28 ` Bart Van Assche
2026-05-11 16:30 ` [PATCH v4 03/12] block/cgroup: Split blkg_conf_prep() Bart Van Assche
2026-05-11 16:30 ` [PATCH v4 04/12] block/cgroup: Split blkg_conf_exit() Bart Van Assche
2026-05-11 16:30 ` [PATCH v4 05/12] block/cgroup: Improve lock context annotations Bart Van Assche
2026-05-11 16:30 ` [PATCH v4 06/12] block/cgroup: Inline blkg_conf_{open,close}_bdev_frozen() Bart Van Assche
2026-05-11 16:30 ` [PATCH v4 07/12] block/crypto: Annotate the crypto functions Bart Van Assche
2026-05-11 16:30 ` [PATCH v4 08/12] block/blk-iocost: Add lock context annotations Bart Van Assche
2026-05-11 16:30 ` [PATCH v4 09/12] block/blk-mq-debugfs: Improve " Bart Van Assche
2026-05-11 16:30 ` [PATCH v4 10/12] block/kyber: Make the lock context annotations compatible with Clang Bart Van Assche
2026-05-11 16:30 ` [PATCH v4 11/12] block/mq-deadline: " Bart Van Assche
2026-05-11 16:30 ` [PATCH v4 12/12] block: Enable lock context analysis Bart Van Assche
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