Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 11 Aug 2023 21:07:12 +0000 | From | Wei Liu <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2] hv_balloon: Update the balloon driver to use the SBRM API |
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On Mon, Aug 07, 2023 at 11:55:47PM +0000, Mitchell Levy via B4 Relay wrote: > From: Mitchell Levy <levymitchell0@gmail.com> > > This patch is intended as a proof-of-concept for the new SBRM > machinery[1]. For some brief background, the idea behind SBRM is using > the __cleanup__ attribute to automatically unlock locks (or otherwise > release resources) when they go out of scope, similar to C++ style RAII. > This promises some benefits such as making code simpler (particularly > where you have lots of goto fail; type constructs) as well as reducing > the surface area for certain kinds of bugs. > > The changes in this patch should not result in any difference in how the > code actually runs (i.e., it's purely an exercise in this new syntax > sugar). In one instance SBRM was not appropriate, so I left that part > alone, but all other locking/unlocking is handled automatically in this > patch. > > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230626125726.GU4253@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net/ > > Suggested-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> > Signed-off-by: "Mitchell Levy (Microsoft)" <levymitchell0@gmail.com> > Reviewed-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Applied to hyperv-next. Thanks!
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