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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH tip/locking/core] compiler-context-analysis: Support
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On Wed, Jan 21, 2026 at 08:24:27PM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> I haven't seen all the other approaches, but would a macro be able to hide
> it with some kind of obfuscation from the compiler?
> 
> 
> 	GUARD_INIT(obj->state, INIT_STATE);
> 
> which would be something like a WRITE_ONCE() macro. I'm not sure what
> tooling there is to disable checks for a small bit of code like this.

Well, you don't really want WRITE_ONCE for every field, but basically
a barrier.  And initializing the lock seems like a very logical
place for such a barrier.  So we'd probably need to pair it with a some
kind of 'start initializing fields' that starts the context, and the
init then ends it.