Commit 09ef8725 authored by Patrick Pannuto's avatar Patrick Pannuto Committed by Linus Torvalds

checkpatch: warn about unexpectedly long msleep's

As explained in Documentation/timers/timers-howto.txt, msleep's of < 20ms
may sleep for as long as 20ms.  Caller's of msleep(1) or msleep(2), etc
are likely not to expect this quirky behavior - warn them.
Signed-off-by: default avatarPatrick Pannuto <ppannuto@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 1a15a250
......@@ -2592,6 +2592,13 @@ sub process {
}
}
# warn about unexpectedly long msleep's
if ($line =~ /\bmsleep\s*\((\d+)\);/) {
if ($1 < 20) {
WARN("msleep < 20ms can sleep for up to 20ms; see Documentation/timers/timers-howto.txt\n" . $line);
}
}
# warn about #ifdefs in C files
# if ($line =~ /^.\s*\#\s*if(|n)def/ && ($realfile =~ /\.c$/)) {
# print "#ifdef in C files should be avoided\n";
......
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