It has been a while. I find out why during this happen during I debugging my other interrupt checker. _spin_unlock_irq() is a macro which will expand to __raw_spin_unlock(), which inline into a function. But _spin_lock_irq is an external function which does not inline. So sparse only sees the unlock, it can't see the locking. Chris On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 11:07:10PM +0100, Ulrich Kunitz wrote: > Hi, > > I have tried sparse 0.2 for the zd1211rw WLAN driver, which I > happen to contribute too. > > I get numerous context imbalance warnings, that I don't > understand. This is on an SMP (x86-64) build of a vanilla 2.6.19. > I get the same warning on an SMP build of PPC32. > > A simple example is: > > /home/kunitz/zd1211/rw/zd_usb.c:1167:13: warning: context imbalance in 'disable_read_regs_int' - wrong count at exit > > zd_usb.c > 1167 static void disable_read_regs_int(struct zd_usb *usb) > 1168 { > 1169 struct zd_usb_interrupt *intr = &usb->intr; > 1170 > 1171 spin_lock_irq(&intr->lock); > 1172 intr->read_regs_enabled = 0; > 1173 spin_unlock_irq(&intr->lock); > 1174 } > > Please set me on CC of the answer I'm not a regular reader of this > list. > > You will find the driver source in the kernel itself. I tested it > however against my latest git tree, which is available from > > git-clone http://deine-taler.de/zd1211/zd1211.git > > -- > Uli Kunitz > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-sparse" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-sparse" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html