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SubjectRe: [PATCH -next] bcache: use DEFINE_MUTEX() for mutex lock
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On 4/29/21 12:19 AM, Muhammad Usama Anjum wrote:
> On Tue, 2021-04-06 at 02:17 +0500, Muhammad Usama Anjum wrote:
>> On Mon, 2021-04-05 at 22:02 +0800, Coly Li wrote:
>>> On 4/5/21 6:14 PM, Zheng Yongjun wrote:
>>>> mutex lock can be initialized automatically with DEFINE_MUTEX()
>>>> rather than explicitly calling mutex_init().
>>>>
>>>> Reported-by: Hulk Robot <hulkci@huawei.com>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Zheng Yongjun <zhengyongjun3@huawei.com>
>>>
>>> NACK. This is not the first time people try to "fix" this location...
>>>
>>> Using DEFINE_MUTEX() does not gain anything for us, it will generate
>>> unnecessary extra size for the bcache.ko.
>>> ines.
>>
>> How can the final binary have larger size by just static declaration?
>> By using DEFINE_MUTEX, the mutex is initialized at compile time. It'll
>> save initialization at run time and one line of code will be less also
>> from text section.
>>
>> #### with no change (dynamic initialization)
>> size drivers/md/bcache/bcache.ko
>> text data bss dec hex filename
>> 187792 25310 152 213254 34106 drivers/md/bcache/bcache.ko
>>
>> #### with patch applied (static initialization)
>> text data bss dec hex filename
>> 187751 25342 120 213213 340dd drivers/md/bcache/bcache.ko
>>
>> Module's binary size has decreased by 41 bytes with the path applied
>> (x86_64 arch).
>>
> Anybody has any thoughts on it?
>
>


I am waiting for Yongjun's v4 patch to update the commit log, which was
suggested by Pavel Goran.

Coly Li

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