[PATCH v3 0/6] powerpc: use lock guards for mutex Set 1

Shrikanth Hegde sshegde at linux.ibm.com
Mon May 5 17:53:27 AEST 2025


This is an effort to make the code simpler by making use of lock
guards which were introduced in [1], which works by using __cleanup 
attributes. More details in v1 cover letter

v2->v3:
- Collects tags (Andrew Donnellan & Srikar Dronamraju)
- Address comments from Srikar Dronamraju 

v1->v2:
- Fix changelog of powernv (Andrew Donnellan)
- use scoped_guard in couple of places to avoid holding mutex
  un-necessarily (Peter Zijlstra)

[1]: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230612093537.614161713%40infradead.org
v1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250314054544.1998928-1-sshegde@linux.ibm.com/#t
v2: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250314114502.2083434-1-sshegde@linux.ibm.com/

Shrikanth Hegde (6):
  powerpc: eeh: use lock guard for mutex
  powerpc: rtas: use lock guard for mutex
  powerpc: fadump: use lock guard for mutex
  powerpc: book3s: vas: use lock guard for mutex
  powerpc: powernv: ocxl: use lock guard for mutex
  powerpc: sysdev: use lock guard for mutex

 arch/powerpc/kernel/eeh.c                   | 20 +++----
 arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c                | 11 ++--
 arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas_flash.c            | 64 +++++++--------------
 arch/powerpc/platforms/book3s/vas-api.c     | 32 +++++------
 arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/ocxl.c       | 12 +---
 arch/powerpc/sysdev/fsl_mpic_timer_wakeup.c | 14 +----
 6 files changed, 50 insertions(+), 103 deletions(-)

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