From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, Carlos Maiolino <cem@kernel.org>,
linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org, dgc@kernel.org
Subject: Re: improve log context annotations
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2026 17:27:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260721152738.GA16685@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260721152348.GY7380@frogsfrogsfrogs>
On Tue, Jul 21, 2026 at 08:23:48AM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> > More review is always good. But as a reminder for the audience:
> > lockdep and the lock context annotations are two totally seaprate
> > things. The former verifies the locking state at runtime, while
> > the latter is about compile-time enforcement for the cases where
> > that is possible.
>
> <shrug> The new annotations are consistent with my understanding of the
> annotated functions, but as I don't build with clang I can't say I've
> actually dug into its auto-verifier features, let alone run it.
Even with clang you need to opt into the in the Makefile for XFS.
As mentioned in this cover letter we're not quite ready for
that yet, but I want to get there.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-07-21 15:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-20 9:45 improve log context annotations Christoph Hellwig
2026-07-20 9:45 ` [PATCH 1/8] xfs: fix the lock annotation on xfs_iget_cache_hit Christoph Hellwig
2026-07-20 9:45 ` [PATCH 2/8] xfs: fix the lock annotation in xfs_extent_busy_update_extent Christoph Hellwig
2026-07-20 9:45 ` [PATCH 3/8] xfs: fix the lock annotation in xfs_mru_cache_lookup Christoph Hellwig
2026-07-20 9:45 ` [PATCH 4/8] xfs: improve lock annotations in the log code Christoph Hellwig
2026-07-20 9:45 ` [PATCH 5/8] xfs: add lock annotations to xfs_try_open_zone Christoph Hellwig
2026-07-20 9:45 ` [PATCH 6/8] xfs: add lock annotations to xlog_state_shutdown_callbacks Christoph Hellwig
2026-07-20 9:45 ` [PATCH 7/8] xfs: add a lock annotation to xlog_cil_push_background Christoph Hellwig
2026-07-20 9:45 ` [PATCH 8/8] xfs: add lock annotations to xfs_ail_delete* Christoph Hellwig
2026-07-21 9:16 ` improve log context annotations Carlos Maiolino
2026-07-21 15:01 ` Christoph Hellwig
2026-07-21 15:23 ` Darrick J. Wong
2026-07-21 15:27 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2026-07-22 0:08 ` Dave Chinner
2026-07-22 9:20 ` Christoph Hellwig
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