Introduction of __smp barriers cleans up a bunch of duplicate code, but
it gives people an additional handle onto a "new" set of barriers - just
because they're prefixed with __* unfortunately doesn't stop anyone from
using it (as happened with other arch stuff before.)
Add a checkpatch test so it will trigger a warning.
Reported-by: Russell King <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
scripts/checkpatch.pl | 10 ++++++++++
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 97b8b62..a96adcb 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -5141,6 +5141,16 @@ sub process {
}
}
+ my $underscore_smp_barriers = qr{__smp_($smp_barriers)}x;
+
+ if ($realfile !~ m@^include/asm-generic/@ &&
+ $realfile !~ m@/barrier\.h$@ &&
+ $line =~ m/\b($underscore_smp_barriers)\s*\(/ &&
+ $line !~ m/^.\s*\#\s*define\s+($underscore_smp_barriers)\s*\(/) {
+ WARN("MEMORY_BARRIER",
+ "__smp memory barriers shouldn't be used outside barrier.h and asm-generic\n" . $herecurr);
+ }
+
# check for waitqueue_active without a comment.
if ($line =~ /\bwaitqueue_active\s*\(/) {
if (!ctx_has_comment($first_line, $linenr)) {
--
MST
