Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: teach checkpatch about rcu

From: Michael S. Tsirkin
Date: Sun Nov 21 2010 - 03:32:00 EST


On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 06:15:47PM +0100, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Le jeudi 18 novembre 2010 à 19:05 +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin a écrit :
> > I got this:
> > + struct kvm_kernel_irq_routing_entry __rcu *irq_entry;
> > which is because checkpatch does not know about __rcu.
> > So here's a patch to teach it about that tag.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > scripts/checkpatch.pl | 1 +
> > 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> > index 2039acd..1b11c8e 100755
> > --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> > +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> > @@ -143,6 +143,7 @@ our $Sparse = qr{
> > __must_check|
> > __init_refok|
> > __kprobes|
> > + __rcu|
> > __ref
> > }x;
> >
>
>
> Hmm, why __percpu is in $Attribute, and __rcu in $Sparse ?
>

I can't say: we have __kernel and __user and __iomem address spaces in $Sparse
and only __percpu in $Attribute, so I thought address spaces belong in
$Sparse and __percpu just sneaked in there with a ton of other
attributes added by 03f1df7da5696ddfa6e167b37e0c0ce5aad3de79.

Should __percpu be moved to $Sparse perhaps?

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MST

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