From: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] wireless: wl12xx, fix lock imbalance
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 23:49:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A5BABDB.2070600@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A5BAABF.9020708@gmail.com>
On 07/13/2009 11:44 PM, Jiri Slaby wrote:
>> I've had local hacks
>> many times to make sparse aware of mutexes, is there a reason they are
>> not annotated with __acquire(s)/__release(s) like spinlocks etc.?
>
> Mutexes are often locked/unlocked interprocedural which I think sparse
> can't do much about.
(which means it has high false positive rate in those cases)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-13 21:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-13 21:24 [PATCH] wireless: wl12xx, fix lock imbalance Jiri Slaby
2009-07-13 21:40 ` Johannes Berg
2009-07-13 21:44 ` Jiri Slaby
2009-07-13 21:49 ` Jiri Slaby [this message]
2009-07-13 21:49 ` Johannes Berg
2009-07-13 21:51 ` Jiri Slaby
2009-07-13 21:54 ` Johannes Berg
2009-07-18 11:19 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-07-18 11:33 ` Johannes Berg
2009-07-18 16:10 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-07-26 8:00 ` stanse [was: wireless: wl12xx, fix lock imbalance] Jiri Slaby
2009-10-12 10:11 ` Stanse 1.0.0 released " Jiri Slaby
2009-10-12 10:47 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-07-14 5:44 ` [PATCH] wireless: wl12xx, fix lock imbalance Luciano Coelho
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