Re: [PATCH 1/3] sched: add __rcu annotation
From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Tue Jan 04 2011 - 06:01:35 EST
On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 11:55 +0100, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Le mardi 04 janvier 2011 Ã 11:17 +0100, Peter Zijlstra a Ãcrit :
>
> > I'm really starting to detest sparse (lock annotations), it keeps adding
> > these annotations, but does it ever catch an actual bug?
>
> Actually I caught at least one bug in networking (FIB code ?) thanks to
> these __rcu annotations ;)
>
> Cannot remember the exact bug, sorry ;)
Ah, ok.. then they're not completely pointless. Lai, can you resend with
a slightly better changelog?
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