This require_context attribute originated in a proposed sparse patch by Philipp Reisner back in 2008. Johannes Berg had a different solution to a similar problem, and that patch "won" in the end; so the require_context thing never got merged. The whole history can be read at [0]. DRBD kept using these annotations anyway for a while. Nowadays, on a modern unmodified sparse, they obviously do nothing, and they are hardly used anymore anyway. So, just remove the definitions of these macros. [0] https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-sparse/msg01150.html Signed-off-by: Christoph Böhmwalder <christoph.boehmwalder@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Joel Colledge <joel.colledge@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/block/drbd/drbd_int.h | 12 +----------- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_int.h b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_int.h index ae713338aa46..edce1f7ac2da 100644 --- a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_int.h +++ b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_int.h @@ -39,16 +39,6 @@ #include "drbd_protocol.h" #include "drbd_polymorph_printk.h" -#ifdef __CHECKER__ -# define __protected_by(x) __attribute__((require_context(x,1,999,"rdwr"))) -# define __protected_read_by(x) __attribute__((require_context(x,1,999,"read"))) -# define __protected_write_by(x) __attribute__((require_context(x,1,999,"write"))) -#else -# define __protected_by(x) -# define __protected_read_by(x) -# define __protected_write_by(x) -#endif - /* shared module parameters, defined in drbd_main.c */ #ifdef CONFIG_DRBD_FAULT_INJECTION extern int drbd_enable_faults; @@ -774,7 +764,7 @@ struct drbd_device { unsigned long flags; /* configured by drbdsetup */ - struct drbd_backing_dev *ldev __protected_by(local); + struct drbd_backing_dev *ldev; sector_t p_size; /* partner's disk size */ struct request_queue *rq_queue; -- 2.38.1
