Re: [PATCH 1/2] irq_flags_t: intro and core annotations

[Roman Zippel]

Hi,

On Sun, 28 Oct 2007, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:

> > If it's just about the type checking, something like below should pretty 
> > much do the same.
> 
> It won't catch, the following if both variables are unsigned long:
> 
> 	spin_lock_irqsave(&lock, flags);
> 		[stuff]
> 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&lock, foo->flags);
> 
> It won't catch "static unsigned long flags;". With sparse, we can
> eventually mark type as "on-stack only".

It should be on the stack, but we have cases where a pointer to it is used 
(e.g. lock_timer_base). How do you want to deal with this?

bye, Roman
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