On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 07:14:17AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > 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. One would argue that in that case they're too far away in any case :-) > And checkpatch is still stupid, it only looks for existence > of any comment, not at the comment content. Could we try and alleviate this by giving a slightly more verbose warning? Maybe something like: memory barrier without comment; please refer to the pairing barrier and describe the ordering requirements. > Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>