From 09ef87255da0e005dd0ab39ca25714208cf29cb3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Patrick Pannuto Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2010 17:21:02 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] 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: Patrick Pannuto Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index 8b69af8a76f9..dd11bbe01338 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -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"; -- 2.20.1