netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v2 01/13] tcp: factor out tcp_build

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Date:   Sat, 14 Nov 2020 13:02:39 -0800
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        mptcp@...ts.01.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 01/13] tcp: factor out tcp_build_frag()

On Fri, 13 Nov 2020 11:38:13 +0100 Paolo Abeni wrote:
> > Is there a chance someone could look into adding annotations to socket
> > locking?  
> 
> Annotating lock_sock_fast()/unlock_sock_fast() as they would
> unconditionally acquire/release the socket spinlock removes the warning
> related to fast lock - at least for me;).
> 
> Hopefully that does not interact with lockdep, but perhpas is a bit too
> extreme/rusty?

I'm not a sparse expert, do we need both __acquire and __acquires?

Would you mind submitting officially and CCing the sparse ML?