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 <[email protected]>
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]>
Cc: Oliver Neukum <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 23d55bfcb5af68b4731274f4d4b974e9ff7802c4..2e40f64ed77f656b340c1e49bd5c541528ea397a 100755 (executable)
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -3850,8 +3850,8 @@ sub process {
 # check for memory barriers without a comment.
                if ($line =~ /\b(mb|rmb|wmb|read_barrier_depends|smp_mb|smp_rmb|smp_wmb|smp_read_barrier_depends)\(/) {
                        if (!ctx_has_comment($first_line, $linenr)) {
-                               CHK("MEMORY_BARRIER",
-                                   "memory barrier without comment\n" . $herecurr);
+                               WARN("MEMORY_BARRIER",
+                                    "memory barrier without comment\n" . $herecurr);
                        }
                }
 # check of hardware specific defines