Re: [PATCH] wireless: wl12xx, fix lock imbalance

From: Johannes Berg
Date: Mon Jul 13 2009 - 17:50:27 EST


On Mon, 2009-07-13 at 23:44 +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote:

> > I've had local hacks
> > many times to make sparse aware of mutexes, is there a reason they are
> > not annotated with __acquire(s)/__release(s) like spinlocks etc.?
>
> Mutexes are often locked/unlocked interprocedural which I think sparse
> can't do much about.

Well, you annotate those functions too, of course.

johannes

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