Re: [PATCH] staging: lustre: lustre/ldlm: Fixed sparse warnings

[Greg KH]

On Fri, Sep 09, 2016 at 08:50:35PM +0530, Nayeemahmed Badebade wrote:
> Added __acquires / __releases sparse locking annotations
> to lock_res_and_lock and unlock_res_and_lock functions in
> l_lock.c, to fix below sparse warnings:
> 
>  l_lock.c:47:22: warning: context imbalance in 'lock_res_and_lock' - wrong count at exit
>  l_lock.c:62:6: warning: context imbalance in 'unlock_res_and_lock' - unexpected unlock
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nayeemahmed Badebade <itachi.opsrc@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/ldlm/l_lock.c | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/ldlm/l_lock.c b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/ldlm/l_lock.c
> index ea8840c..c4b9612 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/ldlm/l_lock.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/ldlm/l_lock.c
> @@ -45,6 +45,8 @@
>   * being an atomic operation.
>   */
>  struct ldlm_resource *lock_res_and_lock(struct ldlm_lock *lock)
> +				__acquires(&lock->l_lock)
> +				__acquires(lock->l_resource)

Hm, these are tricky, I don't want to take this type of change without
an ack from the lustre developers...

thanks,

greg k-h