Hello, On Tue, 2020-11-17 at 17:58 +0100, Luc Van Oostenryck wrote: > On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 09:38:45AM +0100, Paolo Abeni wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Thank you for the feedback! > > > > On Mon, 2020-11-16 at 23:27 +0100, Luc Van Oostenryck wrote: > > > > @@ -1606,10 +1607,12 @@ bool lock_sock_fast(struct sock *sk); > > > > */ > > > > static inline void unlock_sock_fast(struct sock *sk, bool slow) > > > > { > > > > - if (slow) > > > > + if (slow) { > > > > release_sock(sk); > > > > - else > > > > + __release(&sk->sk_lock.slock); > > > > > > The correct solution would be to annotate the declaration of > > > release_sock() with '__releases(&sk->sk_lock.slock)'. > > > > If I add such annotation to release_sock(), I'll get several sparse > > warnings for context imbalance (on each lock_sock()/release_sock() > > pair), unless I also add an '__acquires()' annotation to lock_sock(). > > > > The above does not look correct to me ?!? When release_sock() completes > > the socket spin lock is not held. > > Yes, that's fine, but I suppose it somehow releases the mutex that > is taken in lock_sock_fast() when returning true, right? Well, it has mutex semantics, but does not really acquire any mutex. > > The annotation added above is > > somewhat an artifact to let unlock_sock_fast() matches lock_sock_fast() > > from sparse perspective. I intentionally avoided changing > > the release_sock() annotation to avoid introducing more artifacts. > > > > The proposed schema is not 100% accurate, as it will also allow e.g. a > > really-not-fitting bh_lock_sock()/unlock_sock_fast() pair, but I could > > not come-up with anything better. > > > > Can we go with the schema I proposed? > > Well, I suppose it's a first step. > But can you then add a '__releases(...)' to unlock_sock_fast()? > It's not needed by sparse because it's an inline function and sparse > can then deduce it but it will help to see the pairing with > lock_sock_fast() is OK. Ok, I'll send a v2 with such annotation. Thanks! Paolo