On Mon, 12 Feb 2007, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
>
> What can I do to tell sparse that this code is ok and there should not be a
> warning? Is there a "__ignore_context_imbalance" or something that I can mark
> up the {un,}lock_kernel() with or something like that?
No, you should annotate the function as already having the lock when
entered.
What sparse warns about is not a locking imbalance (it's all balanced) but
the fact that locking counts go negative (which is always a bug). And they
go negative because you drop a lock that git didn't even know about
(because it doesn't do global analysis - just per-function).
Now, you can either try to make sparsedo global analysis (which some
people apparently really _are_ trying to do), or you can tell sparse that
it holds a certain lock on entry, and is _supposed_ to release it. You can
do that by annotating the function with __acquires/__releases():
int myfunction(..)
__releases(kernel_lock)
__acquires(kernel_lock)
{
unlock_kernel();
..
lock_kernel();
}
which does two things:
- it shows the *programmer* that the function is doing somethign
"strange" (not really strange, but still: it's basically a fairly
readable way that it's doing locking in a weird way).
- it tells sparse that the function is actually supposed to release the
lock and then re-acquire it.
This would also be how you annotate functions that really *are*
unbalanced. Some functions get entered with a lock held, and release it,
or the other way around (the simplest example of that is obviously the
"__raw_spin_[un]lock()" functions themselves, but it's pretty common in
"locking helper functions" too).
Linus
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