From: Josh Triplett hugetlbfs_forget_inode releases inode_lock. Add a lock annotation to this function so that sparse can check callers for lock pairing, and so that sparse will not complain about this functions since it intentionally uses the lock in this manner. Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c~hugetlbfs-add-lock-annotation-to-hugetlbfs_forget_inode fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c --- a/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c~hugetlbfs-add-lock-annotation-to-hugetlbfs_forget_inode +++ a/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c @@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ static void hugetlbfs_delete_inode(struc clear_inode(inode); } -static void hugetlbfs_forget_inode(struct inode *inode) +static void hugetlbfs_forget_inode(struct inode *inode) __releases(inode_lock) { struct super_block *sb = inode->i_sb; _