From: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2025 09:55:08 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: fs: annotate cdev_lock with __cacheline_aligned_in_smp
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fs: annotate cdev_lock with __cacheline_aligned_in_smp

No need for the crapper to be susceptible to false-sharing.

Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251203095508.291073-1-mjguzik@gmail.com
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
---

diff --git a/fs/char_dev.c b/fs/char_dev.c
index c2ddb998f3c94..84a5a0699373c 100644
--- a/fs/char_dev.c
+++ b/fs/char_dev.c
@@ -343,7 +343,7 @@ void __unregister_chrdev(unsigned int major, unsigned int baseminor,
 	kfree(cd);
 }
 
-static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(cdev_lock);
+static __cacheline_aligned_in_smp DEFINE_SPINLOCK(cdev_lock);
 
 static struct kobject *cdev_get(struct cdev *p)
 {