Re: [PATCH] module: Annotate nested sleep in resolve_symbol()

From: Dave Jones
Date: Tue Feb 10 2015 - 12:51:03 EST


On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 06:12:55PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On which, we should probably do this.
>
> ---
> Subject: module: Replace over-engineered nested sleep
>
> Since the introduction of the nested sleep warning; we've established
> that the occasional sleep inside a wait_event() is fine.
>
> wait_event() loops are invariant wrt. spurious wakeups, and the
> occasional sleep has a similar effect on them. As long as its occasional
> its harmless.
>
> Therefore replace the 'correct' but verbose wait_woken() thing with
> a simple annotation to shut up the warning.
>
> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Seems to suppress the warning, and modules still work.

Tested-by: Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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