Re: [PATCH] Make spinlock/rwlock annotations more accurate by using parameters, not types

On Tue, 22 Aug 2006 17:51:38 -0700
Josh Triplett <[email protected]> wrote:

> The lock annotations used on spinlocks and rwlocks currently use
> __{acquires,releases}(spinlock_t) and __{acquires,releases}(rwlock_t),
> respectively.  This loses the information of which lock actually got acquired
> or released, and assumes a different type for the parameter of __acquires and
> __releases than the rest of the kernel.  While the current implementations of
> __acquires and __releases throw away their argument, this will not always
> remain the case.

It won't?  Why, what will happen?
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