On Mon, Aug 07, 2023 at 11:55:47PM +0000, Mitchell Levy via B4 Relay wrote: > From: Mitchell Levy <levymitchell0@xxxxxxxxx> > > This patch is intended as a proof-of-concept for the new SBRM > machinery[1]. For some brief background, the idea behind SBRM is using > the __cleanup__ attribute to automatically unlock locks (or otherwise > release resources) when they go out of scope, similar to C++ style RAII. > This promises some benefits such as making code simpler (particularly > where you have lots of goto fail; type constructs) as well as reducing > the surface area for certain kinds of bugs. > > The changes in this patch should not result in any difference in how the > code actually runs (i.e., it's purely an exercise in this new syntax > sugar). In one instance SBRM was not appropriate, so I left that part > alone, but all other locking/unlocking is handled automatically in this > patch. > > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230626125726.GU4253@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ > > Suggested-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@xxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: "Mitchell Levy (Microsoft)" <levymitchell0@xxxxxxxxx> > Reviewed-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@xxxxxxxxx> Applied to hyperv-next. Thanks!
