Re: [RFC 0/3] Examples for the new sparse context trackingfunctionality

From: Johannes Berg
Date: Mon Apr 21 2008 - 04:26:44 EST



> At some point in the future, we might want to distinguish between
> the different flavors of RCU -- except that there is already common
> code that doesn't care which flavor of RCU is in use, as long as
> some sort of RCU is present. So make that "some point in the distant
> future"...

No big deal, just declare

my_specific_rcu_get() __acquires(RCU) __acquires(specificRCU);

and then annotate whatever needs the specific RCU type with
__requires(specificRCU)

johannes

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