On Mon, 22 Jun 2009, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 11:11:12AM -0700, Davide Libenzi wrote: > > On Mon, 22 Jun 2009, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > > > > Not really, it's impossible to document all races one have thought > > > about and avoided. > > > > Well, when some new code has non-trivial locking/racing logics, you better > > document it as clearly as possible, akpm announced time ago. > > Absolutely. But IMO documentation in the form of "fields A B C are > protected by lock X" in a single place near field declaration is better > than "we take lock X here to protect against race with user thread using > fields A B C" sprinkled all over the code.
Exactly what akpm suggested. A fat comment on top of the C file describing locking logic and pitfalls. - Davide -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
