On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 07:09:56PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Umm. This is why we write things like
>
> static void double_lock_balance(struct rq *this_rq, struct rq *busiest)
> __releases(this_rq->lock)
> __acquires(busiest->lock)
> __acquires(this_rq->lock)
> {
> ...
>
> ie your "__holds()" is nothing new, and should be written as
> a pair of __releases(x) and __acquires(x), which is more readable anyway
> (since it actually says what the function does!)
Thanks, I hadn't realised that sparse would unify the two declarations.
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