Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: teach checkpatch about rcu

["Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>]

On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 06:15:47PM +0100, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Le jeudi 18 novembre 2010 à 19:05 +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin a écrit :
> > I got this:
> > +       struct kvm_kernel_irq_routing_entry __rcu *irq_entry;
> > which is because checkpatch does not know about __rcu.
> > So here's a patch to teach it about that tag.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
> > ---
> >  scripts/checkpatch.pl |    1 +
> >  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> > index 2039acd..1b11c8e 100755
> > --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> > +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> > @@ -143,6 +143,7 @@ our $Sparse	= qr{
> >  			__must_check|
> >  			__init_refok|
> >  			__kprobes|
> > +			__rcu|
> >  			__ref
> >  		}x;
> >  
> 
> 
> Hmm, why __percpu is in $Attribute, and __rcu in $Sparse ?
> 

I can't say: we have __kernel and __user and __iomem address spaces in $Sparse
and only __percpu in $Attribute, so I thought address spaces belong in
$Sparse and __percpu just sneaked in there with a ton of other
attributes added by 03f1df7da5696ddfa6e167b37e0c0ce5aad3de79.

Should __percpu be moved to $Sparse perhaps?

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