On Tue, Sep 12, 2023 at 08:29:55AM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote: > So, once again, we have mixed messages from the lock maintainers. > One says "no, it might get abused", another says "I'm fine with > that", and now we have a maintainer disagreement stalemate. I didn't say no, I was trying to see if there's alternatives because the is_locked pattern has a history of abuse. If not, then sure we can do this; it's not like I managed to get rid of muteX_is_locked() -- and I actually tried at some point :/ And just now I grepped for it, and look what I find: drivers/hid/hid-nintendo.c: if (unlikely(mutex_is_locked(&ctlr->output_mutex))) { drivers/nvdimm/btt.c: if (mutex_is_locked(&arena->err_lock) And there's more :-( Also, please just calm down already..