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x86/ldt: use "pr_info_once()" instead of open-coding it badly
Using a mutex for "print this warning only once" is so overdesigned as
to be actively offensive to my sensitive stomach.
Just use "pr_info_once()" that already does this, although in a
(harmlessly) racy manner that can in theory cause the message to be
printed twice if more than one CPU races on that "is this the first
time" test.
[ If somebody really cares about that harmless data race (which sounds
very unlikely indeed), that person can trivially fix printk_once() by
using a simple atomic access, preferably with an optimistic non-atomic
test first before even bothering to treat the pointless "make sure it
is _really_ just once" case.
A mutex is most definitely never the right primitive to use for
something like this. ]
Yes, this is a small and meaningless detail in a code path that hardly
matters. But let's keep some code quality standards here, and not
accept outrageously bad code.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wgV9toS7GU3KmNpj8hCS9SeF+A0voHS8F275_mgLhL4Lw@mail.gmail.com/
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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