Re: [KJ] Re: [PATCH] bugfix GFP_KERNEL -> GFP_ATOMIC in spin_locked region

Oliver Neukum
2007-06-05T11:33:22Z

Am Dienstag, 5. Juni 2007 13:05 schrieb Yoann Padioleau:
> Ok. Do you have a preference on the format ?  a <file>:<line> format  ?
>
> Is there a place that gathered all those implicit programming rules
> (that copy_from_user must not be called inside a spinlock, etc) so that
> I can translate them in a script for our tool.

How much C does your tool understand? You might basically
test for code paths that go to "might_sleep()"

Regards
Oliver