[PATCH] Enforce "unsigned long flags;" when spinlocking
authorAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Sat, 25 Nov 2006 19:09:36 +0000 (11:09 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.osdl.org>
Sat, 25 Nov 2006 21:28:34 +0000 (13:28 -0800)
commitee3ce191e8eaa4cc15c51a28b34143b36404c4f5
tree557c5ade9b92e91f095e4017d97ffe7afd83383f
parent5e66b0b5f187c811419ff10cfb5668c028a64d57
[PATCH] Enforce "unsigned long flags;" when spinlocking

Make it break or warn if you pass to spin_lock_irqsave() and friends
something different from "unsigned long flags;".  Suprisingly large amount
of these was caught by recent commit
c53421b18f205c5f97c604ae55c6a921f034b0f6 and others.

Idea is largely from FRV typechecking. Suggestions from Andrew Morton.
All stupid typos in first version fixed.

Passes allmodconfig on i386, x86_64, alpha, arm as well as my usual config.

Note #1: checking with sparse is still needed, because a driver can save
 and pass around flags or something. So far patch is very intrusive.
Note #2: techically, we should break only if
sizeof(flags) < sizeof(unsigned long),
 however, the more pain for getting suspicious code into kernel,
 the better.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
include/linux/irqflags.h
include/linux/spinlock.h