Re: [PATCH RFC 10/10] mm/hugetlb: Comment at rest huge_pte_offset() places

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On Mon, Oct 31, 2022 at 10:39:33PM -0700, Nadav Amit wrote:
> On Oct 30, 2022, at 2:30 PM, Peter Xu <peterx@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > +		/* With vma lock held, safe without RCU */
> > 		src_pte = huge_pte_offset(src, addr, sz);
> 
> Just another option to consider: you can create an inline function
> huge_pte_offset_locked_mm(), which would do the lockdep_assert_held_*().
> 
> I personally would prefer it, since it would clarify exactly the lock you
> care about and "make the code document itself”.

That's a great suggestion, I'll give it a shot in the next version.

Thanks!

-- 
Peter Xu





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