The patch titled SRCU: add lock annotations to srcu_read_lock and srcu_read_unlock has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is srcu-3-rcu-variant-permitting-read-side-blocking-srcu-add-lock-annotations.patch See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: SRCU: add lock annotations to srcu_read_lock and srcu_read_unlock From: Josh Triplett <josht@xxxxxxxxxx> Add an __acquires annotation to srcu_read_lock, and add a __releases annotation to srcu_read_unlock. This allows static analysis tools to detect improperly paired calls to these functions. Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/srcu.h | 4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN include/linux/srcu.h~srcu-3-rcu-variant-permitting-read-side-blocking-srcu-add-lock-annotations include/linux/srcu.h --- a/include/linux/srcu.h~srcu-3-rcu-variant-permitting-read-side-blocking-srcu-add-lock-annotations +++ a/include/linux/srcu.h @@ -42,8 +42,8 @@ struct srcu_struct { void init_srcu_struct(struct srcu_struct *sp); void cleanup_srcu_struct(struct srcu_struct *sp); -int srcu_read_lock(struct srcu_struct *sp); -void srcu_read_unlock(struct srcu_struct *sp, int idx); +int srcu_read_lock(struct srcu_struct *sp) __acquires(sp); +void srcu_read_unlock(struct srcu_struct *sp, int idx) __releases(sp); void synchronize_srcu(struct srcu_struct *sp); long srcu_batches_completed(struct srcu_struct *sp); void cleanup_srcu_struct(struct srcu_struct *sp); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from josht@xxxxxxxxxx are xfs-add-lock-annotations-to-xfs_trans_update_ail-and-xfs_trans_delete_ail.patch efi-add-lock-annotations-for-efi_call_phys_prelog-and-efi_call_phys_epilog.patch mbcache-add-lock-annotation-for-__mb_cache_entry_release_unlock.patch afs-add-lock-annotations-to-afs_proc_cell_servers_startstop.patch fuse-add-lock-annotations-to-request_end-and-fuse_read_interrupt.patch hugetlbfs-add-lock-annotation-to-hugetlbfs_forget_inode.patch jbd-add-lock-annotation-to-jbd_sync_bh.patch fs-add-lock-annotation-to-grab_super.patch rcu-add-lock-annotations-to-rcu_bh_torture_read_lockunlock.patch timer-add-lock-annotation-to-lock_timer_base.patch nfsd-add-lock-annotations-to-e_start-and-e_stop.patch srcu-3-rcu-variant-permitting-read-side-blocking-srcu-add-lock-annotations.patch rcu-add-module_author-to-rcutorture-module.patch rcu-fix-incorrect-description-of-default-for-rcutorture.patch rcu-mention-rcu_bh-in-description-of-rcutortures.patch rcu-avoid-kthread_stop-on-invalid-pointer-if-rcutorture.patch rcu-fix-sign-bug-making-rcu_random-always-return-the-same.patch rcu-add-fake-writers-to-rcutorture.patch rcu-add-fake-writers-to-rcutorture-tidy.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html