Peter Zijlstra prefers that comments be required near uses
of memory barriers.
Change the message level for memory barrier uses from a
--strict test only to a normal WARN so it's always emitted.
This might produce false positives around insertions of
memory barriers when a comment is outside the patch context
block.
And checkpatch is still stupid, it only looks for existence
of any comment, not at the comment content.
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
scripts/checkpatch.pl | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index c03e427..bd4103a 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -3816,8 +3816,8 @@ sub string_find_replace {
# check for memory barriers without a comment.
if ($line =~ /\b(mb|rmb|wmb|read_barrier_depends|smp_mb|smp_rmb|smp_wmb|smp_read_barrier_depends)\(/) {
if (!ctx_has_comment($first_line, $linenr)) {
- CHK("MEMORY_BARRIER",
- "memory barrier without comment\n" . $herecurr);
+ WARN("MEMORY_BARRIER",
+ "memory barrier without comment\n" . $herecurr);
}
}
# check of hardware specific defines
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