On Mon, Mar 31, 2025 at 11:53:25PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Mon, 2025-03-31 at 14:03 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > Uses of srcu_read_lock_lite() and srcu_read_unlock_lite() are better
> > served by the new srcu_read_lock_fast() and srcu_read_unlock_fast() APIs.
> > As in srcu_read_lock_lite() and srcu_read_unlock_lite() would never have
> > happened had I thought a bit harder a few months ago. Therefore, mark
> > them deprecated.
>
> Would it be better to convert the 3 existing instances?
Both are needed. The point of these checkpatch.pl changes is to prevent
other instances from being added.
Thanx, Paul
> > Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul...@kernel.org>
> > ---
> > scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 ++
> > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> > index 7b28ad3317427..de8ed5efc5b16 100755
> > --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> > +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> > @@ -838,6 +838,8 @@ our %deprecated_apis = (
> > "kunmap" => "kunmap_local",
> > "kmap_atomic" => "kmap_local_page",
> > "kunmap_atomic" => "kunmap_local",
> > + "srcu_read_lock_lite" => "srcu_read_lock_fast",
> > + "srcu_read_unlock_lite" => "srcu_read_unlock_fast",
> > );
> >
> > #Create a search pattern for all these strings to speed up a loop below
>
>
