Re: [PATCH] rcu: mollify sparse with RCU guard

From: Johannes Berg
Date: Mon Mar 25 2024 - 14:52:23 EST


On Mon, 2024-03-25 at 21:28 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 25, 2024 at 05:41:22PM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > Also __acquire()/__release() are just empty macros without __CHECKER__.
> > So not sure the indirection really is warranted for this special case.
> >
> > I can add a comment in there, I guess, something like
> >
> > /* sparse doesn't actually "call" cleanup functions */
> >
> > perhaps. That reminds me I forgot to CC Dan ...
> >
>
> These are Sparse warnings, not Smatch warning... Smatch doesn't use any
> of the Sparse locking annotations.

Sure, of course. I just saw that you added cleanup stuff to sparse to
allow using it in smatch.

> Smatch handles cleanup basically correctly at this point.

Do you "run" / "emit" the cleanup function calls there? I briefly look
at doing that in sparse but it felt ... complicated, and then I saw the
condition in the cleanup function which I thought sparse could probably
not see through anyway.

johannes