On Tue, Oct 01, 2024 at 05:30:18PM -0500, David Lechner wrote: > Add a new if_not_cond_guard() macro to cleanup.h for handling > conditional guards such as mutext_trylock(). > > This is more ergonomic than scoped_cond_guard() for most use cases. > Instead of hiding the error handling statement in the macro args, it > works like a normal if statement and allow the error path to be indented > while the normal code flow path is not indented. And it avoid unwanted > side-effect from hidden for loop in scoped_cond_guard(). > > Signed-off-by: David Lechner <dlechner@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > include/linux/cleanup.h | 11 +++++++++++ > 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/include/linux/cleanup.h b/include/linux/cleanup.h > index 038b2d523bf8..682bb3fadfc9 100644 > --- a/include/linux/cleanup.h > +++ b/include/linux/cleanup.h > @@ -273,6 +273,10 @@ static inline class_##_name##_t class_##_name##ext##_constructor(_init_args) \ > * an anonymous instance of the (guard) class, not recommended for > * conditional locks. > * > + * if_not_cond_guard(name, args...) { <error handling> }: > + * convenience macro for conditional guards that calls the statement that > + * follows only if the lock was not acquired (typically an error return). > + * > * scoped_guard (name, args...) { }: > * similar to CLASS(name, scope)(args), except the variable (with the > * explicit name 'scope') is declard in a for-loop such that its scope is > @@ -304,6 +308,13 @@ static inline class_##_name##_t class_##_name##ext##_constructor(_init_args) \ > > #define __guard_ptr(_name) class_##_name##_lock_ptr > > +#define __if_not_cond_guard(_name, _id, args...) \ > + CLASS(_name, _id)(args); \ > + if (!__guard_ptr(_name)(&_id)) > + > +#define if_not_cond_guard(_name, args...) \ > + __if_not_cond_guard(_name, __UNIQUE_ID(guard), args) > + > #define scoped_guard(_name, args...) \ > for (CLASS(_name, scope)(args), \ > *done = NULL; __guard_ptr(_name)(&scope) && !done; done = (void *)1) So if I stick this on top of: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241011121535.28049-1-przemyslaw.kitszel@xxxxxxxxx then I can add the below: --- a/include/linux/cleanup.h +++ b/include/linux/cleanup.h @@ -277,6 +277,8 @@ static inline class_##_name##_t class_## * convenience macro for conditional guards that calls the statement that * follows only if the lock was not acquired (typically an error return). * + * Only for conditional locks. + * * scoped_guard (name, args...) { }: * similar to CLASS(name, scope)(args), except the variable (with the * explicit name 'scope') is declard in a for-loop such that its scope is @@ -290,7 +292,6 @@ static inline class_##_name##_t class_## * acquire fails. * * Only for conditional locks. - * */ #define __DEFINE_CLASS_IS_CONDITIONAL(_name, _is_cond) \ @@ -342,6 +343,7 @@ _label: \ __UNIQUE_ID(label), args) #define __if_not_guard(_name, _id, args...) \ + BUILD_BUG_ON(!__is_cond_ptr(_name)); \ CLASS(_name, _id)(args); \ if (!__guard_ptr(_name)(&_id)) That make sense to people? I've queued these two patches: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/peterz/queue.git locking/core But lacking if_not_guard() users, the robot isn't really going to give me much feedback there, I suppose...