Branches for-6.11/block and block-6.10 both have the following sparse build issues: block/bdev.c:388:17: warning: symbol 'blockdev_mnt' was not declared. Should it be static? block/blk-settings.c:266:9: warning: context imbalance in 'queue_limits_commit_update' - wrong count at exit block/blk-cgroup.c:834:5: warning: context imbalance in 'blkg_conf_prep' - wrong count at exit block/blk-cgroup.c:965:9: warning: context imbalance in 'blkg_conf_exit' - wrong count at exit block/blk-iocost.c:732:9: warning: context imbalance in 'iocg_lock' - wrong count at exit block/blk-iocost.c:743:28: warning: context imbalance in 'iocg_unlock' - unexpected unlock block/blk-zoned.c:595:30: warning: context imbalance in 'disk_get_and_lock_zone_wplug' - wrong count at exit block/blk-zoned.c: note: in included file (through include/linux/blkdev.h): ./include/linux/bio.h:592:9: warning: context imbalance in 'blk_zone_wplug_handle_write' - unexpected unlock block/blk-zoned.c:1747:31: warning: context imbalance in 'blk_revalidate_seq_zone' - unexpected unlock block/bfq-iosched.c:5498:9: warning: context imbalance in 'bfq_exit_icq' - different lock contexts for basic block This series contains changes to resolve some of those issues. Some issues are not addressed, as follows: - for zoned stuff, as mentioned by Damien at [0], they are not worth solving - for blk-iocost.c issues, at [1] Tejun says that lockdep does a better job (than sparse) - for blk-cgroup.c issues, at [2] again Tejun says that lockdep does a better job I am reposting the patch from Jiapeng Chong, as it was never picked up. [0] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-block/5e04760e-1334-4514-b2d0-be0d7df33865@xxxxxxxxxx/ [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-block/ZmtwqDsMnTJHQB6o@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ [2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/Y7x9t+4EwXFl7OwS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ Jiapeng Chong (1): bdev: make blockdev_mnt static John Garry (2): block: Drop locking annotation for limits_lock block: BFQ: Refactor bfq_exit_icq() to silence sparse warning block/bdev.c | 2 +- block/bfq-iosched.c | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++------------------ block/blk-settings.c | 1 - include/linux/blkdev.h | 1 - 4 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-) -- 2.31.1