linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] wireless: wl12xx, fix lock imbalance

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Message-ID: <4A5BAC77.9010503@gmail.com>
Date:	Mon, 13 Jul 2009 23:51:51 +0200
From:	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>
To:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] wireless: wl12xx, fix lock imbalance

On 07/13/2009 11:49 PM, Johannes Berg wrote:
> 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.

Sorry, I don't understand. What functions I annotate?
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