Re: [GIT PULL] vfs mount

Linus Torvalds
2025-04-07T16:00:30Z

On Mon, 7 Apr 2025 at 01:51, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
>
> The scoped one with proper indentation is fine. The non-scoped one is
> the one that is really confusing and odd.

Ahh, I misunderstood you.

You're obviously right in a "visually obvious" way - even if it was
the scoped one that caused problems.

But the non-scoped one is *so* convenient when you have a helper
function that just wants to run with some local (or RCU) held.

There's a reason we have more than two _thousand_ uses of it by now in
the kernel (~4x as many as the scoped version). It's just makes code
look so much simpler.

I was nervous about the lock guard macros initially, but it really
does get rid of pointless boilerplate code. Even without error
handling complications it just makes code simpler.

Linus