Re: improve log context annotations

On Mon, Jul 20, 2026 at 11:45:37AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Hi Carlos,
> 
> this series improves the lock annotations in the XFS code.
> 
> Note that right now this is all mostly unused - the less stringent sparse
> lock context checks got disabled when the clang version was merged, and
> we're not quite ready to enable the latter yet due to our conditional
> locking in the ilock helper and the locking contexts transferred to the
> transaction for the inode and dquot locks, but I'm working on that.
> 
> In the meantime having these corrected at least serves as useful
> documentation.

Thanks. Those all look good for me. But I'm adding Dave to the thread as
he has much more expertise with lockdep than me and I'd appreciate his
input.


> 
> Diffstat:
>  xfs_extent_busy.c |    4 ++--
>  xfs_icache.c      |    3 ++-
>  xfs_log.c         |   33 +++++++++++++++++++++------------
>  xfs_log_cil.c     |    3 ++-
>  xfs_log_priv.h    |    4 ++--
>  xfs_mru_cache.c   |    2 +-
>  xfs_trans_ail.c   |    4 +++-
>  xfs_zone_alloc.c  |    2 ++
>  8 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
>