linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/4] Checkpatch: warn about unexpectedly long msleep's

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Message-Id: <20100728132457.06b0c279.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:24:57 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Patrick Pannuto <ppannuto@...eaurora.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, apw@...onical.com, corbet@....net,
	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] Checkpatch: warn about unexpectedly long msleep's

On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 12:33:07 -0700
Patrick Pannuto <ppannuto@...eaurora.org> wrote:

> As explained in Documentation/timers/delays.txt, msleep's
> of < 20ms may sleep for as long as 20ms. Caller's of
> msleep(1) or msleep(2), etc are likely not to expect this
> quirky behavior - warn them.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Patrick Pannuto <ppannuto@...eaurora.org>
> ---
>  scripts/checkpatch.pl |    7 +++++++
>  1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> index 892ae62..0ca2ea5 100755
> --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> @@ -2578,6 +2578,13 @@ sub process {
>  			}
>  		}
>  
> +# warn about unexpectedly long msleep's
> +		if ($line =~ /\bmsleep\s*\((\d+)\);/) {
> +			if ($1 < 20) {
> +				WARN("msleep < 20ms can sleep for up to 20ms; see Documentation/timers/delays.txt\n" . $line);

Should be timers-howto.txt?


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