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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC 1/4] ARM: topology: Add arch_scale_freq_power function
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 12:30:57 -0700
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On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 20:27 +0100, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 02:52:49PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Tue, 2012-06-12 at 14:02 +0200, Vincent Guittot wrote:
> > >         }
> > >         smp_wmb();
> > >  } 
> > 
> > You know what.. we should make checkpatch report an error for memory
> > barriers that don't have a comment. 
> > 
> > I know this isn't added by this patch, but every time I see something
> > like it I cry a little.
> 
> Actually if it was a new line, it would have been reported, at least in
> theory:
> 
>     # check for memory barriers without a comment.
> 		    if ($line =~
>     /\b(mb|rmb|wmb|read_barrier_depends|smp_mb|smp_rmb|smp_wmb|smp_read_barrier_depends)\(/)
>     {
> 	if (!ctx_has_comment($first_line, $linenr)) {
> 	    CHK("MEMORY_BARRIER",
> 		"memory barrier without comment\n" . $herecurr);
> 	}
>     }

Maybe promote that CHK to a WARN.