Re: [KJ] Re: [PATCH] bugfix GFP_KERNEL -> GFP_ATOMIC in spin_locked region

[Oliver Neukum]

Am Dienstag, 5. Juni 2007 13:05 schrieb Yoann Padioleau:
> Ok. Do you have a preference on the format ?  a <file>:<line> format  ?
> 
> Is there a place that gathered all those implicit programming rules 
> (that copy_from_user must not be called inside a spinlock, etc) so that
> I can translate them in a script for our tool.

How much C does your tool understand? You might basically
test for code paths that go to "might_sleep()"

	Regards
		Oliver
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