Re: [PATCH -next] treewide: remove unused argument in lock_release()

[Will Deacon]

On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 08:50:36AM -0400, Qian Cai wrote:
> On Fri, 2019-09-20 at 10:38 +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 12:09:40PM -0400, Qian Cai wrote:
> > > Since the commit b4adfe8e05f1 ("locking/lockdep: Remove unused argument
> > > in __lock_release"), @nested is no longer used in lock_release(), so
> > > remove it from all lock_release() calls and friends.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Qian Cai <cai@xxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > 
> > Although this looks fine to me at a first glance, it might be slightly
> > easier to manage if you hit {spin,rwlock,seqcount,mutex,rwsem}_release()
> > first with coccinelle scripts, and then hack lock_release() as a final
> > patch. That way it's easy to regenerate things if needed.
> 
> I am not sure if it worth the extra efforts where I have to retest it on all
> architectures, and the patch is really simple, but I can certainly do that if
> you insist.

I'm not insisting, just thought it might be easier to get it merged that
way. If you prefer to go with the big diff,

Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx>

Will