From: Roland Dreier <roland@topspin.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Sparse "context" checking..
Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 21:11:24 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52d5yzwmqb.fsf@topspin.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0410302005270.28839@ppc970.osdl.org> (Linus Torvalds's message of "Sat, 30 Oct 2004 20:20:53 -0700 (PDT)")
Linus> In particular, this is designed for doing things like
Linus> matching up a "lock" with the pairing "unlock", and right
Linus> now that's exactly what the code does: it makes each
Linus> spinlock count as "+1" in the context, and each spinunlock
Linus> count as "-1", and then hopefully it should all add up.
Do you have a plan for how to handle functions like spin_trylock()? I
notice in the current tree you just didn't annotate spin_trylock().
Thanks,
Roland
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-31 4:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-31 3:20 Sparse "context" checking Linus Torvalds
2004-10-31 4:11 ` Roland Dreier [this message]
2004-10-31 5:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-11-11 19:38 ` Greg KH
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