Re: [PATCH 06/19] bcache: explicitly destory mutex while exiting

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mutex_destroy does nothing normally (may not be true in the future), but
when debug mutex is turned on it helps with debugging - mutex_destroy
in mutex-debug.c.
It's not about freeing of the memory. It's more about consistency of the
use of mutex and making the code future proof.

Thanks,
Linag

On Thu, Jul 6, 2017 at 2:27 AM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 01:42:55PM -0700, bcache@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> From: Liang Chen <liangchen.linux@xxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> mutex_destroy does nothing most of time, but it's better to call
>> it to make the code future proof and it also has some meaning
>> for like mutex debug.
>
> It shouldn't really - we should get the destroy behavior for free
> when doing a slab free of the area.
>
> What issue are you trying to solve?



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