Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Add warnings for use of mdelay()

[Julia Lawall]

On Thu, 5 Jul 2018, Dan Carpenter wrote:

> Neither Smatch nor Coccinelle do a good job tracking when you're in
> atomic context.  I've wanted to add this to Smatch but even then it
> would be to warn that "We're holding a spinlock so we can't sleep".
> It's trickier to say for sure when you're not holding a lock...

Jia-Ju Bai is working on this.  The tool is available on github.  It's
still being improved, though, so perhaps it's not yet ready for eg 0-day
inclusion.  He can give more details.

julia