Re: Semantics vs. usage of mutex_is_locked()

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On Mon, Feb 7, 2022 at 4:47 PM Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 07, 2022 at 04:15:27PM +0100, Ondrej Mosnacek wrote:
> > Also, any opinions on the name of the new helper? Perhaps
> > mutex_is_held()? Or mutex_is_locked_by_current()?
>
> lockdep_assert_held*() and friends work on mutexes just fine.

Hm, good point, although it will only work if CONFIG_LOCKDEP=y, which
is usually not enabled on production kernels... But maybe it doesn't
make sense to do the check on non-debug kernels anyway?

--
Ondrej Mosnacek
Software Engineer, Linux Security - SELinux kernel
Red Hat, Inc.




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