From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Alexander Riesen <alexander.riesen@cetitec.com>
Cc: linux-sparse@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org>,
Christopher Li <sparse@chrisli.org>
Subject: Re: Why sparse does not support context tracking?
Date: Mon, 04 May 2015 15:38:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1430746737.2013.22.camel@sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55475272.90705@cetitec.com>
On Mon, 2015-05-04 at 13:05 +0200, Alexander Riesen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I tried to instrument my code (a kernel driver) with __must_hold hints
> and noticed that they don't really work: a definitely broken code caused
> no errors from sparse.
> Revert the context tracking code
> So it seems that the code has problems with different contexts. Still, it seems
> a bit heavy-handed to remove it completely (assuming it worked, of course).
It didn't really work. It had a lot of issues that were too big for my
little wireless-focused brain :)
johannes
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2015-05-04 11:05 Why sparse does not support context tracking? Alexander Riesen
2015-05-04 13:38 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2015-05-04 14:05 ` Alexander Riesen
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