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| author | Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> | 2023-05-26 12:23:48 +0200 |
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| committer | Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> | 2023-06-26 11:14:18 +0200 |
| commit | 54da6a0924311c7cf5015533991e44fb8eb12773 (patch) | |
| tree | af497256995d40431b9c214e7faa45639bf3d991 /include/linux/compiler-clang.h | |
| parent | 9a1f37ebcfe061721564042254719dc8fd5c9fa0 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-54da6a0924311c7cf5015533991e44fb8eb12773.tar.gz lwn-54da6a0924311c7cf5015533991e44fb8eb12773.zip | |
locking: Introduce __cleanup() based infrastructure
Use __attribute__((__cleanup__(func))) to build:
- simple auto-release pointers using __free()
- 'classes' with constructor and destructor semantics for
scope-based resource management.
- lock guards based on the above classes.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230612093537.614161713%40infradead.org
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/compiler-clang.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/compiler-clang.h | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/compiler-clang.h b/include/linux/compiler-clang.h index 6cfd6902bd5b..9b673fefcef8 100644 --- a/include/linux/compiler-clang.h +++ b/include/linux/compiler-clang.h @@ -5,6 +5,15 @@ /* Compiler specific definitions for Clang compiler */ +/* + * Clang prior to 17 is being silly and considers many __cleanup() variables + * as unused (because they are, their sole purpose is to go out of scope). + * + * https://reviews.llvm.org/D152180 + */ +#undef __cleanup +#define __cleanup(func) __maybe_unused __attribute__((__cleanup__(func))) + /* same as gcc, this was present in clang-2.6 so we can assume it works * with any version that can compile the kernel */ |