linux-kernel - Re: sparse errors in srcu.h

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Date:	Wed, 6 Dec 2006 08:15:37 -0800
From:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@...-lyon.org>
Cc:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ibm.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: sparse errors in srcu.h

On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 10:50:14AM +0100, Brice Goglin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> When running sparse checks on a file that ends up including srcu.h, we
> get the following warnings:
> 
>     include/linux/srcu.h:52:44: error: undefined identifier 'sp'
>     include/linux/srcu.h:52:44: error: bad constant expression
>     include/linux/srcu.h:53:56: error: undefined identifier 'sp'
>     include/linux/srcu.h:53:56: error: bad constant expression
> 
> It seems to be caused by the following lines:
> 
>     int srcu_read_lock(struct srcu_struct *sp) __acquires(sp);
>     void srcu_read_unlock(struct srcu_struct *sp, int idx) __releases(sp);
> 
> which come from the following commit.
> 
>     commit 621934ee7ed5b073c7fd638b347e632c53572761
>     Author: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ibm.com>
>     Date:   Wed Oct 4 02:17:02 2006 -0700
> 
>     [PATCH] srcu-3: RCU variant permitting read-side blocking
> 
> 
> I was wondering if there is a way to fix those errors...

I believe that you need to update your version of sparse to 0.1.
See http://lwn.net/Articles/208312/ for more info.

							Thanx, Paul
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