> On Jul 15, 2017, at 1:59 PM, Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sat, 15 Jul 2017, Mark D Rustad wrote: > >> >>> On Jul 15, 2017, at 1:07 PM, Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@xxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>> Drop static on a local variable, when the variable is initialized before >>> any possible use. Thus, the static has no benefit. >> >> I think this is in error like the other one. I believe that the irq_chip structure needs a persistent lifetime. > > I'm not following in this case. chip is a pointer to a structure, not a > structure. Its address is not taken. irq_set_chip_and_handler that uses > it below is a fnuction, so it just gets the value. > > julia Sorry. My mistake. I didn't look quite hard enough at this one. >> >>> The semantic patch that fixes this problem is as follows: >>> (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) >>> >>> // <smpl> >>> @bad exists@ >>> position p; >>> identifier x; >>> type T; >>> @@ >>> static T x@p; >>> ... >>> x = <+...x...+> >>> >>> @@ >>> identifier x; >>> expression e; >>> type T; >>> position p != bad.p; >>> @@ >>> -static >>> T x@p; >>> ... when != x >>> when strict >>> ?x = e; >>> // </smpl> >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@xxxxxxx> >>> >>> --- >>> These patches are all independent of each other. >>> >>> drivers/irqchip/irq-mips-cpu.c | 2 +- >>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) >>> >>> diff -u -p a/drivers/irqchip/irq-mips-cpu.c b/drivers/irqchip/irq-mips-cpu.c >>> --- a/drivers/irqchip/irq-mips-cpu.c >>> +++ b/drivers/irqchip/irq-mips-cpu.c >>> @@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ asmlinkage void __weak plat_irq_dispatch >>> static int mips_cpu_intc_map(struct irq_domain *d, unsigned int irq, >>> irq_hw_number_t hw) >>> { >>> - static struct irq_chip *chip; >>> + struct irq_chip *chip; >>> >>> if (hw < 2 && cpu_has_mipsmt) { >>> /* Software interrupts are used for MT/CMT IPI */ >>> >> >> -- >> Mark Rustad, MRustad@xxxxxxxxx -- Mark Rustad, MRustad@xxxxxxxxx
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