Re: [PATCH v2 04/11] locking/ww_mutex: Set use_ww_ctx even when locking without a context

[Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>]

On Thu, Dec 01, 2016 at 03:06:47PM +0100, Nicolai Hähnle wrote:
> +++ b/include/linux/ww_mutex.h
> @@ -222,11 +222,7 @@ extern int __must_check __ww_mutex_lock_interruptible(struct ww_mutex *lock,
>   */
>  static inline int ww_mutex_lock(struct ww_mutex *lock, struct ww_acquire_ctx *ctx)
>  {
> -	if (ctx)
> -		return __ww_mutex_lock(lock, ctx);
> -
> -	mutex_lock(&lock->base);
> -	return 0;
> +	return __ww_mutex_lock(lock, ctx);
>  }
>  
>  /**
> @@ -262,10 +258,7 @@ static inline int ww_mutex_lock(struct ww_mutex *lock, struct ww_acquire_ctx *ct
>  static inline int __must_check ww_mutex_lock_interruptible(struct ww_mutex *lock,
>  							   struct ww_acquire_ctx *ctx)
>  {
> -	if (ctx)
> -		return __ww_mutex_lock_interruptible(lock, ctx);
> -	else
> -		return mutex_lock_interruptible(&lock->base);
> +	return __ww_mutex_lock_interruptible(lock, ctx);
>  }
>  

After this the entire point of __ww_mutex_lock*() is gone, right? Might
as well rename them to ww_mutex_lock() and remove this pointless
wrapper.