From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, josh@freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: add sparse annotation to ptype_seq_start/stop
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 22:01:19 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080121060119.GE7541@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080121052831.GF27894@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 05:28:31AM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 09:03:55PM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 03:21:46PM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > > Get rid of some more sparse warnings.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
> >
> > Adding Josh to CC -- is __acquires() case-insensitive? If not, this
> > needs to be __acquires(RCU) and __releases(RCU).
>
> __acquires(whatever_the_helk_you_put_as_its_argument) is all the same.
The existing calls are __acquires(RCU) and __releases(RCU). I suppose
that one -could- use __acquires(RCU) in some places and __acquires(rcu)
in others, but that sounds like it would eventually bite us...
Thanx, Paul
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-21 6:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-20 23:21 [PATCH] net: add sparse annotation to ptype_seq_start/stop Stephen Hemminger
2008-01-21 5:03 ` Paul E. McKenney
2008-01-21 5:28 ` Al Viro
2008-01-21 6:01 ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2008-01-21 7:29 ` Josh Triplett
2008-01-21 10:28 ` David Miller
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