[RFC PATCH] checkpatch: Warn on use of yield()

[Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>]

Use of yield() is deprecated or at least generally undesirable.

Add a checkpatch warning when it's used.
Suggest cpu_relax instead.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
---
> Joe, can we please have a checkpatch rule?

Something like this?

 scripts/checkpatch.pl |    5 +++++
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index e32ea7f..80ad474 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -3300,6 +3300,11 @@ sub process {
 			     "__func__ should be used instead of gcc specific __FUNCTION__\n"  . $herecurr);
 		}
 
+# check for use of yield()
+		if ($line =~ /\byield\s*\(\s*\)/ {
+			WARN("YIELD",
+			     "yield() is deprecated, consider cpu_relax()\n"  . $herecurr);
+		}
 # check for semaphores initialized locked
 		if ($line =~ /^.\s*sema_init.+,\W?0\W?\)/) {
 			WARN("CONSIDER_COMPLETION",


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