From: Josh Triplett The functions efi_call_phys_prelog and efi_call_phys_epilog in arch/i386/kernel/efi.c wrap the spinlock efi_rt_lock: efi_call_phys_prelog returns with the lock held, and efi_call_phys_epilog releases the lock without acquiring it. Add lock annotations to these two functions so that sparse can check callers for lock pairing, and so that sparse will not complain about these functions since they intentionally use locks in this manner. Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- arch/i386/kernel/efi.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN arch/i386/kernel/efi.c~efi-add-lock-annotations-for-efi_call_phys_prelog-and-efi_call_phys_epilog arch/i386/kernel/efi.c --- a/arch/i386/kernel/efi.c~efi-add-lock-annotations-for-efi_call_phys_prelog-and-efi_call_phys_epilog +++ a/arch/i386/kernel/efi.c @@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ static unsigned long efi_rt_eflags; static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(efi_rt_lock); static pgd_t efi_bak_pg_dir_pointer[2]; -static void efi_call_phys_prelog(void) +static void efi_call_phys_prelog(void) __acquires(efi_rt_lock) { unsigned long cr4; unsigned long temp; @@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ static void efi_call_phys_prelog(void) load_gdt(cpu_gdt_descr); } -static void efi_call_phys_epilog(void) +static void efi_call_phys_epilog(void) __releases(efi_rt_lock) { unsigned long cr4; struct Xgt_desc_struct *cpu_gdt_descr = &per_cpu(cpu_gdt_descr, 0); _