Re: [PATCH 06/19] bcache: explicitly destory mutex while exiting

Christoph Hellwig
2017-07-05T18:27:30Z

On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 01:42:55PM -0700, bcache@lists.ewheeler.net wrote:
> From: Liang Chen <liangchen.linux@gmail.com>
>
> mutex_destroy does nothing most of time, but it's better to call
> it to make the code future proof and it also has some meaning
> for like mutex debug.

It shouldn't really - we should get the destroy behavior for free
when doing a slab free of the area.

What issue are you trying to solve?