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<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<title>locking/mutex: Fix wrong comment for CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC</title>
<updated>2026-05-23T11:08:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Davidlohr Bueso</name>
<email>dave@stgolabs.net</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-17T19:15:11+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit babcde3be8c9148aa60a14b17831e8f249854963 ]

... that endif block should be CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC, not
CONFIG_LOCKDEP.

Fixes: 51d7a054521d ("locking/mutex: Redo __mutex_init() to reduce generated code size")
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;dave@stgolabs.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260217191512.1180151-3-dave@stgolabs.net
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit babcde3be8c9148aa60a14b17831e8f249854963 ]

... that endif block should be CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC, not
CONFIG_LOCKDEP.

Fixes: 51d7a054521d ("locking/mutex: Redo __mutex_init() to reduce generated code size")
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;dave@stgolabs.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260217191512.1180151-3-dave@stgolabs.net
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>locking/mutex: Rename mutex_init_lockep()</title>
<updated>2026-05-23T11:08:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Davidlohr Bueso</name>
<email>dave@stgolabs.net</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-17T19:15:10+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 8b65eb52d93e4e496bd26e6867152344554eb39e ]

Typo, this wants to be _lockdep().

Fixes: 51d7a054521d ("locking/mutex: Redo __mutex_init() to reduce generated code size")
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;dave@stgolabs.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260217191512.1180151-2-dave@stgolabs.net
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 8b65eb52d93e4e496bd26e6867152344554eb39e ]

Typo, this wants to be _lockdep().

Fixes: 51d7a054521d ("locking/mutex: Redo __mutex_init() to reduce generated code size")
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;dave@stgolabs.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260217191512.1180151-2-dave@stgolabs.net
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>compiler-context-analysis: Remove __assume_ctx_lock from initializers</title>
<updated>2026-01-28T19:45:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Marco Elver</name>
<email>elver@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-01-19T09:05:56+00:00</published>
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Remove __assume_ctx_lock() from lock initializers.

Implicitly asserting an active context during initialization caused
false-positive double-lock errors when acquiring a lock immediately after its
initialization. Moving forward, guarded member initialization must either:

	1. Use guard(type_init)(&amp;lock) or scoped_guard(type_init, ...).
	2. Use context_unsafe() for simple initialization.

Reported-by: Bart Van Assche &lt;bvanassche@acm.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/57062131-e79e-42c2-aa0b-8f931cb8cac2@acm.org/
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260119094029.1344361-7-elver@google.com
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Remove __assume_ctx_lock() from lock initializers.

Implicitly asserting an active context during initialization caused
false-positive double-lock errors when acquiring a lock immediately after its
initialization. Moving forward, guarded member initialization must either:

	1. Use guard(type_init)(&amp;lock) or scoped_guard(type_init, ...).
	2. Use context_unsafe() for simple initialization.

Reported-by: Bart Van Assche &lt;bvanassche@acm.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/57062131-e79e-42c2-aa0b-8f931cb8cac2@acm.org/
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260119094029.1344361-7-elver@google.com
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>compiler-context-analysis: Introduce scoped init guards</title>
<updated>2026-01-28T19:45:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Marco Elver</name>
<email>elver@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-01-19T09:05:52+00:00</published>
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Add scoped init guard definitions for common synchronization primitives
supported by context analysis.

The scoped init guards treat the context as active within initialization
scope of the underlying context lock, given initialization implies
exclusive access to the underlying object. This allows initialization of
guarded members without disabling context analysis, while documenting
initialization from subsequent usage.

The documentation is updated with the new recommendation. Where scoped
init guards are not provided or cannot be implemented (ww_mutex omitted
for lack of multi-arg guard initializers), the alternative is to just
disable context analysis where guarded members are initialized.

Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251212095943.GM3911114@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net/
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260119094029.1344361-3-elver@google.com
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Add scoped init guard definitions for common synchronization primitives
supported by context analysis.

The scoped init guards treat the context as active within initialization
scope of the underlying context lock, given initialization implies
exclusive access to the underlying object. This allows initialization of
guarded members without disabling context analysis, while documenting
initialization from subsequent usage.

The documentation is updated with the new recommendation. Where scoped
init guards are not provided or cannot be implemented (ww_mutex omitted
for lack of multi-arg guard initializers), the alternative is to just
disable context analysis where guarded members are initialized.

Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251212095943.GM3911114@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net/
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260119094029.1344361-3-elver@google.com
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>locking/mutex: Support Clang's context analysis</title>
<updated>2026-01-05T15:43:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Marco Elver</name>
<email>elver@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-12-19T15:39:59+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=370f0a345a70fe36d0185abf87c7ee8e70572e06'/>
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Add support for Clang's context analysis for mutex.

Signed-off-by: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251219154418.3592607-11-elver@google.com
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Add support for Clang's context analysis for mutex.

Signed-off-by: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251219154418.3592607-11-elver@google.com
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>locking/mutex: Redo __mutex_init() to reduce generated code size</title>
<updated>2025-12-01T05:51:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sebastian Andrzej Siewior</name>
<email>bigeasy@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2025-11-05T14:23:50+00:00</published>
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mutex_init() invokes __mutex_init() providing the name of the lock and
a pointer to a the lock class. With LOCKDEP enabled this information is
useful but without LOCKDEP it not used at all. Passing the pointer
information of the lock class might be considered negligible but the
name of the lock is passed as well and the string is stored. This
information is wasting storage.

Split __mutex_init() into a _genereic() variant doing the initialisation
of the lock and a _lockdep() version which does _genereic() plus the
lockdep bits. Restrict the lockdep version to lockdep enabled builds
allowing the compiler to remove the unused parameter.

This results in the following size reduction:

        text     data       bss        dec  filename
  | 30237599  8161430   1176624   39575653  vmlinux.defconfig
  | 30233269  8149142   1176560   39558971  vmlinux.defconfig.patched
     -4.2KiB   -12KiB

  | 32455099  8471098  12934684   53860881  vmlinux.defconfig.lockdep
  | 32455100  8471098  12934684   53860882  vmlinux.defconfig.patched.lockdep

  | 27152407  7191822   2068040   36412269  vmlinux.defconfig.preempt_rt
  | 27145937  7183630   2067976   36397543  vmlinux.defconfig.patched.preempt_rt
     -6.3KiB    -8KiB

  | 29382020  7505742  13784608   50672370  vmlinux.defconfig.preempt_rt.lockdep
  | 29376229  7505742  13784544   50666515  vmlinux.defconfig.patched.preempt_rt.lockdep
     -5.6KiB

[peterz: folded fix from boqun]

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng &lt;boqun.feng@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Waiman Long &lt;longman@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251125145425.68319-1-boqun.feng@gmail.com
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251105142350.Tfeevs2N@linutronix.de
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mutex_init() invokes __mutex_init() providing the name of the lock and
a pointer to a the lock class. With LOCKDEP enabled this information is
useful but without LOCKDEP it not used at all. Passing the pointer
information of the lock class might be considered negligible but the
name of the lock is passed as well and the string is stored. This
information is wasting storage.

Split __mutex_init() into a _genereic() variant doing the initialisation
of the lock and a _lockdep() version which does _genereic() plus the
lockdep bits. Restrict the lockdep version to lockdep enabled builds
allowing the compiler to remove the unused parameter.

This results in the following size reduction:

        text     data       bss        dec  filename
  | 30237599  8161430   1176624   39575653  vmlinux.defconfig
  | 30233269  8149142   1176560   39558971  vmlinux.defconfig.patched
     -4.2KiB   -12KiB

  | 32455099  8471098  12934684   53860881  vmlinux.defconfig.lockdep
  | 32455100  8471098  12934684   53860882  vmlinux.defconfig.patched.lockdep

  | 27152407  7191822   2068040   36412269  vmlinux.defconfig.preempt_rt
  | 27145937  7183630   2067976   36397543  vmlinux.defconfig.patched.preempt_rt
     -6.3KiB    -8KiB

  | 29382020  7505742  13784608   50672370  vmlinux.defconfig.preempt_rt.lockdep
  | 29376229  7505742  13784544   50666515  vmlinux.defconfig.patched.preempt_rt.lockdep
     -5.6KiB

[peterz: folded fix from boqun]

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng &lt;boqun.feng@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Waiman Long &lt;longman@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251125145425.68319-1-boqun.feng@gmail.com
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251105142350.Tfeevs2N@linutronix.de
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'cxl-for-6.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cxl/cxl</title>
<updated>2025-08-01T22:47:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-08-01T22:47:06+00:00</published>
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Pull CXL updates from Dave Jiang:
 "The most significant changes in this pull request is the series that
  introduces ACQUIRE() and ACQUIRE_ERR() macros to replace conditional
  locking and ease the pain points of scoped_cond_guard().

  The series also includes follow on changes that refactor the CXL
  sub-system to utilize the new macros.

  Detail summary:

   - Add documentation template for CXL conventions to document CXL
     platform quirks

   - Replace mutex_lock_io() with mutex_lock() for mailbox

   - Add location limit for fake CFMWS range for cxl_test, ARM platform
     enabling

   - CXL documentation typo and clarity fixes

   - Use correct format specifier for function cxl_set_ecs_threshold()

   - Make cxl_bus_type constant

   - Introduce new helper cxl_resource_contains_addr() to check address
     availability

   - Fix wrong DPA checking for PPR operation

   - Remove core/acpi.c and CXL core dependency on ACPI

   - Introduce ACQUIRE() and ACQUIRE_ERR() for conditional locks

   - Add CXL updates utilizing ACQUIRE() macro to remove gotos and
     improve readability

   - Add return for the dummy version of cxl_decoder_detach() without
     CONFIG_CXL_REGION

   - CXL events updates for spec r3.2

   - Fix return of __cxl_decoder_detach() error path

   - CXL debugfs documentation fix"

* tag 'cxl-for-6.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cxl/cxl: (28 commits)
  Documentation/ABI/testing/debugfs-cxl: Add 'cxl' to clear_poison path
  cxl/region: Fix an ERR_PTR() vs NULL bug
  cxl/events: Trace Memory Sparing Event Record
  cxl/events: Add extra validity checks for CVME count in DRAM Event Record
  cxl/events: Add extra validity checks for corrected memory error count in General Media Event Record
  cxl/events: Update Common Event Record to CXL spec rev 3.2
  cxl: Fix -Werror=return-type in cxl_decoder_detach()
  cleanup: Fix documentation build error for ACQUIRE updates
  cxl: Convert to ACQUIRE() for conditional rwsem locking
  cxl/region: Consolidate cxl_decoder_kill_region() and cxl_region_detach()
  cxl/region: Move ready-to-probe state check to a helper
  cxl/region: Split commit_store() into __commit() and queue_reset() helpers
  cxl/decoder: Drop pointless locking
  cxl/decoder: Move decoder register programming to a helper
  cxl/mbox: Convert poison list mutex to ACQUIRE()
  cleanup: Introduce ACQUIRE() and ACQUIRE_ERR() for conditional locks
  cxl: Remove core/acpi.c and cxl core dependency on ACPI
  cxl/core: Using cxl_resource_contains_addr() to check address availability
  cxl/edac: Fix wrong dpa checking for PPR operation
  cxl/core: Introduce a new helper cxl_resource_contains_addr()
  ...
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Pull CXL updates from Dave Jiang:
 "The most significant changes in this pull request is the series that
  introduces ACQUIRE() and ACQUIRE_ERR() macros to replace conditional
  locking and ease the pain points of scoped_cond_guard().

  The series also includes follow on changes that refactor the CXL
  sub-system to utilize the new macros.

  Detail summary:

   - Add documentation template for CXL conventions to document CXL
     platform quirks

   - Replace mutex_lock_io() with mutex_lock() for mailbox

   - Add location limit for fake CFMWS range for cxl_test, ARM platform
     enabling

   - CXL documentation typo and clarity fixes

   - Use correct format specifier for function cxl_set_ecs_threshold()

   - Make cxl_bus_type constant

   - Introduce new helper cxl_resource_contains_addr() to check address
     availability

   - Fix wrong DPA checking for PPR operation

   - Remove core/acpi.c and CXL core dependency on ACPI

   - Introduce ACQUIRE() and ACQUIRE_ERR() for conditional locks

   - Add CXL updates utilizing ACQUIRE() macro to remove gotos and
     improve readability

   - Add return for the dummy version of cxl_decoder_detach() without
     CONFIG_CXL_REGION

   - CXL events updates for spec r3.2

   - Fix return of __cxl_decoder_detach() error path

   - CXL debugfs documentation fix"

* tag 'cxl-for-6.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cxl/cxl: (28 commits)
  Documentation/ABI/testing/debugfs-cxl: Add 'cxl' to clear_poison path
  cxl/region: Fix an ERR_PTR() vs NULL bug
  cxl/events: Trace Memory Sparing Event Record
  cxl/events: Add extra validity checks for CVME count in DRAM Event Record
  cxl/events: Add extra validity checks for corrected memory error count in General Media Event Record
  cxl/events: Update Common Event Record to CXL spec rev 3.2
  cxl: Fix -Werror=return-type in cxl_decoder_detach()
  cleanup: Fix documentation build error for ACQUIRE updates
  cxl: Convert to ACQUIRE() for conditional rwsem locking
  cxl/region: Consolidate cxl_decoder_kill_region() and cxl_region_detach()
  cxl/region: Move ready-to-probe state check to a helper
  cxl/region: Split commit_store() into __commit() and queue_reset() helpers
  cxl/decoder: Drop pointless locking
  cxl/decoder: Move decoder register programming to a helper
  cxl/mbox: Convert poison list mutex to ACQUIRE()
  cleanup: Introduce ACQUIRE() and ACQUIRE_ERR() for conditional locks
  cxl: Remove core/acpi.c and cxl core dependency on ACPI
  cxl/core: Using cxl_resource_contains_addr() to check address availability
  cxl/edac: Fix wrong dpa checking for PPR operation
  cxl/core: Introduce a new helper cxl_resource_contains_addr()
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>cleanup: Introduce ACQUIRE() and ACQUIRE_ERR() for conditional locks</title>
<updated>2025-07-16T18:34:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-07-11T23:49:25+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=857d18f23ab17284d1b6de6f61f4e74958596376'/>
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<content type='text'>
scoped_cond_guard(), automatic cleanup for conditional locks, has a couple
pain points:

* It causes existing straight-line code to be re-indented into a new
  bracketed scope. While this can be mitigated by a new helper function
  to contain the scope, that is not always a comfortable conversion.

* The return code from the conditional lock is tossed in favor of a scheme
  to pass a 'return err;' statement to the macro.

Other attempts to clean this up, to behave more like guard() [1], got hung
up trying to both establish and evaluate the conditional lock in one
statement.

ACQUIRE() solves this by reflecting the result of the condition in the
automatic variable established by the lock CLASS(). The result is
separately retrieved with the ACQUIRE_ERR() helper, effectively a PTR_ERR()
operation.

Link: http://lore.kernel.org/all/Z1LBnX9TpZLR5Dkf@gmail.com [1]
Link: http://patch.msgid.link/20250512105026.GP4439@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net
Link: http://patch.msgid.link/20250512185817.GA1808@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: David Lechner &lt;dlechner@baylibre.com&gt;
Cc: Fabio M. De Francesco &lt;fabio.m.de.francesco@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
[djbw: wrap Peter's proposal with changelog and comments]
Co-developed-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron &lt;jonathan.cameron@huawei.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250711234932.671292-2-dan.j.williams@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Dave Jiang &lt;dave.jiang@intel.com&gt;
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scoped_cond_guard(), automatic cleanup for conditional locks, has a couple
pain points:

* It causes existing straight-line code to be re-indented into a new
  bracketed scope. While this can be mitigated by a new helper function
  to contain the scope, that is not always a comfortable conversion.

* The return code from the conditional lock is tossed in favor of a scheme
  to pass a 'return err;' statement to the macro.

Other attempts to clean this up, to behave more like guard() [1], got hung
up trying to both establish and evaluate the conditional lock in one
statement.

ACQUIRE() solves this by reflecting the result of the condition in the
automatic variable established by the lock CLASS(). The result is
separately retrieved with the ACQUIRE_ERR() helper, effectively a PTR_ERR()
operation.

Link: http://lore.kernel.org/all/Z1LBnX9TpZLR5Dkf@gmail.com [1]
Link: http://patch.msgid.link/20250512105026.GP4439@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net
Link: http://patch.msgid.link/20250512185817.GA1808@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: David Lechner &lt;dlechner@baylibre.com&gt;
Cc: Fabio M. De Francesco &lt;fabio.m.de.francesco@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
[djbw: wrap Peter's proposal with changelog and comments]
Co-developed-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron &lt;jonathan.cameron@huawei.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250711234932.671292-2-dan.j.williams@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Dave Jiang &lt;dave.jiang@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>locking/mutex: Mark devm_mutex_init() as __must_check</title>
<updated>2025-07-11T22:11:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Weißschuh</name>
<email>linux@weissschuh.net</email>
</author>
<published>2025-06-17T17:08:14+00:00</published>
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devm_mutex_init() can fail. With CONFIG_DEBUG_MUTEXES=y the mutex will be
marked as unusable and trigger errors on usage.
Enforce all callers check the return value through the compiler.

As devm_mutex_init() itself is a macro, it can not be annotated
directly. Annotate __devm_mutex_init() instead.
Unfortunately __must_check/warn_unused_result don't propagate through
statement expression. So move the statement expression into the argument
list of the call to __devm_mutex_init() through a helper macro.

Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh &lt;linux@weissschuh.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko &lt;andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Bartosz Golaszewski &lt;bartosz.golaszewski@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng &lt;boqun.feng@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250617-must_check-devm_mutex_init-v7-3-d9e449f4d224@weissschuh.net
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devm_mutex_init() can fail. With CONFIG_DEBUG_MUTEXES=y the mutex will be
marked as unusable and trigger errors on usage.
Enforce all callers check the return value through the compiler.

As devm_mutex_init() itself is a macro, it can not be annotated
directly. Annotate __devm_mutex_init() instead.
Unfortunately __must_check/warn_unused_result don't propagate through
statement expression. So move the statement expression into the argument
list of the call to __devm_mutex_init() through a helper macro.

Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh &lt;linux@weissschuh.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko &lt;andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Bartosz Golaszewski &lt;bartosz.golaszewski@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng &lt;boqun.feng@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250617-must_check-devm_mutex_init-v7-3-d9e449f4d224@weissschuh.net
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<entry>
<title>locking/mutex: implement mutex_lock_killable_nest_lock</title>
<updated>2025-05-27T16:16:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Maxim Levitsky</name>
<email>mlevitsk@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-12T18:04:03+00:00</published>
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KVM's SEV intra-host migration code needs to lock all vCPUs
of the source and the target VM, before it proceeds with the migration.

The number of vCPUs that belong to each VM is not bounded by anything
except a self-imposed KVM limit of CONFIG_KVM_MAX_NR_VCPUS vCPUs which is
significantly larger than the depth of lockdep's lock stack.

Luckily, the locks in both of the cases mentioned above, are held under
the 'kvm-&gt;lock' of each VM, which means that we can use the little
known lockdep feature called a "nest_lock" to support this use case in
a cleaner way, compared to the way it's currently done.

Implement and expose 'mutex_lock_killable_nest_lock' for this
purpose.

Signed-off-by: Maxim Levitsky &lt;mlevitsk@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Message-ID: &lt;20250512180407.659015-3-mlevitsk@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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KVM's SEV intra-host migration code needs to lock all vCPUs
of the source and the target VM, before it proceeds with the migration.

The number of vCPUs that belong to each VM is not bounded by anything
except a self-imposed KVM limit of CONFIG_KVM_MAX_NR_VCPUS vCPUs which is
significantly larger than the depth of lockdep's lock stack.

Luckily, the locks in both of the cases mentioned above, are held under
the 'kvm-&gt;lock' of each VM, which means that we can use the little
known lockdep feature called a "nest_lock" to support this use case in
a cleaner way, compared to the way it's currently done.

Implement and expose 'mutex_lock_killable_nest_lock' for this
purpose.

Signed-off-by: Maxim Levitsky &lt;mlevitsk@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Message-ID: &lt;20250512180407.659015-3-mlevitsk@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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