Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] Lock context annotation fixes

[Marco Elver]

On Wed, 25 Feb 2026 at 19:33, Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Peter,
>
> Some of the lock context annotations that have been introduced during the most
> recent merge window were incomplete or incorrect. Hence this patch series with
> fixes. Please consider this patch series for the current kernel development
> cycle.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bart.
>
> Changes compared to v1:
>  - Expanded Cc-list. Added the linux-kernel mailing list and more kernel developers
>    to the Cc-list.
>  - Added Maarten's Acked-by to patch 3/4.
>
> Bart Van Assche (4):
>   locking: Fix rwlock and spinlock lock context annotations
>   signal: Fix the lock_task_sighand() annotation
>   ww-mutex: Fix the ww_acquire_ctx function annotations

I think the above look fine.

>   Revert "lockdep: Annotate lockdep assertions for context analysis"

But this one is a Nack - it makes the programming model worse. If
there are lockdep_assert'able locks, those just need to become
context_lock_structs.