[PATCH 3/6] powerpc: fadump: use lock guard for mutex

Shrikanth Hegde sshegde at linux.ibm.com
Fri Mar 14 16:45:41 AEDT 2025


use guard(mutex) for scope based resource management of mutex.
This would make the code simpler and easier to maintain.

More details on lock guards can be found at
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230612093537.614161713@infradead.org/T/#u

Signed-off-by: Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde at linux.ibm.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c | 6 ++----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c
index 4b371c738213..5fd2c546fd8c 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c
@@ -1374,15 +1374,13 @@ static void fadump_free_elfcorehdr_buf(void)
 
 static void fadump_invalidate_release_mem(void)
 {
-	mutex_lock(&fadump_mutex);
+	guard(mutex)(&fadump_mutex);
+
 	if (!fw_dump.dump_active) {
-		mutex_unlock(&fadump_mutex);
 		return;
 	}
 
 	fadump_cleanup();
-	mutex_unlock(&fadump_mutex);
-
 	fadump_free_elfcorehdr_buf();
 	fadump_release_memory(fw_dump.boot_mem_top, memblock_end_of_DRAM());
 	fadump_free_cpu_notes_buf();
-- 
2.39.3



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