checkpatch: make the memory barrier test noisier
authorJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Tue, 12 Nov 2013 23:10:11 +0000 (15:10 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 13 Nov 2013 03:09:25 +0000 (12:09 +0900)
commitc1fd7bb99637e69994d26df5f6e33192319d3866
tree875cadcd10bc9375fefe44ebe665e4666cc4bb53
parente970b8846ae4763e64be3c93dc06b4eaebf9ad63
checkpatch: make the memory barrier test noisier

Peter Zijlstra prefers that comments be required near uses of memory
barriers.

Change the message level for memory barrier uses from a --strict test only
to a normal WARN so it's always emitted.

This might produce false positives around insertions of memory barriers
when a comment is outside the patch context block.

And checkpatch is still stupid, it only looks for existence of any
comment, not at the comment content.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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