[PATCH v2] staging: unisys: rework signal remove/insert to avoid sparse lock warnings

Greg KH gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Sun Jan 25 11:48:26 UTC 2015


On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 10:39:53PM +1100, Zachary Warren wrote:
> Avoids the following warnings from sparse:
> visorchannel_funcs.c:457:9: warning:
>  context imbalance in 'visorchannel_signalremove' - different lock contexts for basic block
> visorchannel_funcs.c:512:9: warning:
>  context imbalance in 'visorchannel_signalinsert' - different lock contexts for basic
> 
> These warnings are false positives. Sparse can't track conditional contexts. The change
> puts the lock/unlock into the same context by splitting the insert/remove functions each
> into a wrapper function that does locking if necessary and an inner function that does the
> insert/remove operation.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Zachary Warren <conflatulence at gmail.com>
> ---
> Diff generated against next-20150116.
> 
> Change from v1:
> - Replace the link in the changelog with words.
> 
>  .../unisys/visorchannel/visorchannel_funcs.c       | 103 +++++++++++----------
>  1 file changed, 54 insertions(+), 49 deletions(-)

Benjamin, I need an ack from you before I can take this.

thanks,

greg k-h


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