improve context handling
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| # | Subject and files | Size | Replies | Applied |
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| 1/3 | make sparse keep its promise about context trackinginline.c linearize.c linearize.h +8 more | +860 | 19 replies | |
| 2/3 | sparse test suite: add test mixing __context__ and __attribute__((context(...)))validation/ | +21 | 0 replies | |
| 3/3 | sparse: simple conditional context trackinglinearize.c linearize.h parse.c +4 more | +270 | 0 replies |
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Cover letter [PATCH 0/3] improve context handling
Hi,
Here are three patches to improve context tracking in sparse. For example, with the patches, one could define
spin_lock_irqsave() __acquires(local_irq) __acquires(spinlock) spin_unlock_irqrestore() __releases(local_irq) __releases(spinlock)
local_irq_save() __acquires(local_irq)local_irq_restore() __releases(local_irq)
spin_lock() __acquires(spinlock)spin_unlock() __releases(spinlock)
spin_trylock() __attribute__((conditional_context(spinlock,0,1,0)))
and sparse should be able to check constructs like the one in sungem completely:
local_irq_save(flags);
if (!spin_trylock(&gp->tx_lock)) {
/* Tell upper layer to requeue */
local_irq_restore(flags);
return ...;
}
if (..) {
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&gp->tx_lock, flags);
return ...;
}
[...]
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&gp->tx_lock, flags);I haven't tried this particular case, but I have tried simpler versions of all the primivites used, those are in the test suite.
Also, one can now define, as the sparse man page already suggests without patches:
/* needs irqs disabled */
void myfunc(void) __attribute__((context(local_irq,1,1))) {...}
and sparse will warn when the function is called from a context that doesn't have local_irq. Of course, if the context comes from outside the calling function then the calling function needs to use that attribute as well to indicate that it too needs irqs disabled.
Comments welcome!
johannes