linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v15 00/13] mux controller abstraction and iio/i2c muxes

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Message-ID: <20170603102627.GA24274@kroah.com>
Date:   Sat, 3 Jun 2017 19:26:27 +0900
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Peter Rosin <peda@...ator.liu.se>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Peter Rosin <peda@...ntia.se>,
        Wolfram Sang <wsa@...-dreams.de>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Jonathan Cameron <jic23@...nel.org>,
        Hartmut Knaack <knaack.h@....de>,
        Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@...afoo.de>,
        Peter Meerwald-Stadler <pmeerw@...erw.net>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, linux-i2c@...r.kernel.org,
        devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-iio@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>,
        Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>,
        Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@...gutronix.de>, kernel@...gutronix.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH v15 00/13] mux controller abstraction and iio/i2c muxes

On Sun, May 14, 2017 at 09:51:03PM +0200, Peter Rosin wrote:
> From: Peter Rosin <peda@...ntia.se>
> 
> Hi Greg,
> 
> Philipp found problems in v14 with using a mutex for locking that was
> the outcome of the review for v13, so I'm now using a semaphore instead
> of the rwsem that was in v13. That at least got rid of the scary call
> to downgrade_write. However, I'm still unsure about what you actually
> meant with your comment about lack of sparse markings [1]. I did add
> __must_check to the funcs that selects the mux, but I've got this
> feeling that this is not what you meant?

I thought there was a way to mark a function as requiring a lock be held
when it is being called.  Does sparse not support that anymore?

thanks,

greg k-h