Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] checkpatch.pl: add missing memory barriers

From: Joe Perches
Date: Sun Jan 10 2016 - 10:17:48 EST


On Sun, 2016-01-10 at 07:07 -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Sun, 2016-01-10 at 13:56 +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > SMP-only barriers were missing in checkpatch.pl
> >
> > Refactor code slightly to make adding more variants easier.
> []
> > diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
[]
> If I use a variable called $smp_barriers, I'd expect
> it to actually be the smp_barriers, not to have to
> prefix it with smp_ before using it.
>
> my $smp_barriers = qr{
> smp_store_release|
> smp_load_acquire|
> smp_store_mb|
> smp_read_barrier_depends

That's missing (?:barriers) too.

btw: shouldn't this also have
smp_mb__(?:before|after)_atomic
?