From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from casper.infradead.org (casper.infradead.org [90.155.50.34]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B62AD379999 for ; Mon, 23 Feb 2026 22:01:36 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=90.155.50.34 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1771884099; cv=none; b=qT2IWEMiaMj3R+hmtogldzIHv/Qr08yVwpNcxqZdzYuEtwq4RMC5GGy+eGEwxi4oXfCGR3AJgqJHUBbllBKVMDp/3x5bkHJdzFDwsoXd5If9cLBN71dOOiHXusnBbikHDwvb0uTWBpTaKksBd2aoQB8+5lP1gYgWbH/RApe8NGo= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1771884099; c=relaxed/simple; bh=tFDJ5C5U3+zPN4wvq8fzr0nUpGvAOebcTV/NiDF9LU0=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=S91nI+zMxeHJB5N3fC/RNIKpXiG3v5QGUzaqTlC91BL79SuwpLL3MnvmsD4kKlIbmczaHnEHPo51AiaAyAMXCkVBok/O56bAkfdXoJ6Tq5dlkBYtq3RTCyQHU9H8bjAj1sTCB4QNLcIO1MldinNtFSRGBJi9IhcJvnkgjV+/nCo= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=infradead.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=infradead.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=infradead.org header.i=@infradead.org header.b=UNPzvPjx; arc=none smtp.client-ip=90.155.50.34 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=infradead.org Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=infradead.org Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=infradead.org header.i=@infradead.org header.b="UNPzvPjx" DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=infradead.org; s=casper.20170209; h=In-Reply-To:Content-Type:MIME-Version: References:Message-ID:Subject:Cc:To:From:Date:Sender:Reply-To: Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-ID:Content-Description; bh=JuwODzwdxiqhRnM0WdpHUvHyK0GKywBsJDvyXneuDD0=; b=UNPzvPjxiNiCBeVRkriIvLejGP E8/KFg5z3nCy16aI5iJgBg1W+0XXtIu2vimtL0QxYvGWhNc8SC1FYEV2OtN/NA2scgJpFzDapAv0N XBFmDNNsCeVV+yGmy+U7CEWUDjnhIrYdYPtQJnCoC3YhyhjwL9cRaROBsdow2W6qlOtPzoUB9cCt0 heZixAyoMIOd/L3QQ0WjR8UyBkRyTDeLNHlKHgJvb3rzfV0jmpP0QwrxJGvPMNSFCLgNDWP9GmEtr 4ElDg9I7gt+gngDdS6qK6gwQ/VnWgeZ9VbitjjaJkK+Ojk/7YXSvVNWYEccPUNwQzci5DSeFhxfDN hmVlAJJQ==; Received: from 2001-1c00-8d85-5700-266e-96ff-fe07-7dcc.cable.dynamic.v6.ziggo.nl ([2001:1c00:8d85:5700:266e:96ff:fe07:7dcc] helo=noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net) by casper.infradead.org with esmtpsa (Exim 4.98.2 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1vudzd-0000000FBbQ-0Ks5; Mon, 23 Feb 2026 22:01:29 +0000 Received: by noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 7E0A230330E; Mon, 23 Feb 2026 23:01:17 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2026 23:01:17 +0100 From: Peter Zijlstra To: Bart Van Assche Cc: Ingo Molnar , Will Deacon , Boqun Feng , Waiman Long , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Marco Elver , Christoph Hellwig , Steven Rostedt , Nick Desaulniers , Nathan Chancellor , Kees Cook , Jann Horn Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/62] Bug fixes and refactoring patches related to locking Message-ID: <20260223220117.GT1282955@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net> References: <20260223215118.2154194-1-bvanassche@acm.org> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20260223215118.2154194-1-bvanassche@acm.org> On Mon, Feb 23, 2026 at 01:50:15PM -0800, Bart Van Assche wrote: > Hi Peter, > > Annotating all source files in the kernel tree with lock context annotations > led to the discovery of a significant number of locking bugs. This patch > series includes fixes for the discovered bugs. Additionally, multiple > refactoring patches have been included that make it easier for the compiler > to verify correctness of locking operations. Please consider this patch series > for the next merge window. Should we not rather have the various maintainers take the bits relevant to them? This seems all rather orthogonal at this point.