Re: [tip: locking/urgent] locking/ww_mutex: Treat ww_mutex_lock() like a trylock

[Waiman Long]

On 3/17/21 3:58 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 02:32:27PM -0400, Waiman Long wrote:
> > On 3/17/21 1:45 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > > > +# define __DEP_MAP_WW_MUTEX_INITIALIZER(lockname, class) \
> > > > +		, .dep_map = { \
> > > > +			.key = &(class).mutex_key, \
> > > > +			.name = (class).mutex_name, \
> > > 			,name = #class "_mutex", \
> > >
> > > and it 'works', but shees!
> > The name string itself may be duplicated for multiple instances of
> > DEFINE_WW_MUTEX(). Do you want to keep DEFINE_WW_MUTEX() or just use
> > ww_mutex_init() for all?
> So linkers can merge literals, but no guarantee. But yeah, lets just
> kill the thing, less tricky macro crud to worry about.
Good, just to confirm the right way to move forward.

Cheers,
Longman