Re: [PATCH] [afs] Add lock annotations to afs_proc_cell_servers_{start,stop}

[David Howells]

Josh Triplett <josht@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> afs_proc_cell_servers_start acquires a lock, and afs_proc_cell_servers_stop
> releases that lock.  Add lock annotations to these two functions so that
> sparse can check callers for lock pairing, and so that sparse will not
> complain about these functions since they intentionally use locks in this
> manner.

Looks reasonable, though I'm surprised you can get this sort of checking to
work in sparse.

Acked-By: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
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