linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kernel: events: add releases() notation

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.21.1912161335320.23578@ninjahub.org>
Date:   Mon, 16 Dec 2019 13:37:08 +0000 (GMT)
From:   Jules Irenge <jbi.octave@...il.com>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
cc:     Jules Irenge <jbi.octave@...il.com>, bokun.feng@...il.com,
        mingo@...hat.com, acme@...nel.org, mark.rutland@....com,
        alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com, jolsa@...hat.com,
        namhyung@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kernel: events: add releases() notation



On Mon, 16 Dec 2019, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 12:24:00AM +0000, Jules Irenge wrote:
> > Add releases() notation to remove issue detected by sparse
> > context imbalance in perf_output_end() - unexpected unlock
> 
> None of the perf code uses the __acquire / __release annotations crud.
> Also, your annotation is broken, I think it should be __releases(RCU) or
> something like that.
> 
> 

Thanks for the response. I already updated.