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semaphore: Remove mutex emulation

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Semaphores used as mutexes have been deprecated for years. Now that
all users are either converted to real semaphores or to mutexes remove
the cruft.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <20100907125057.562399240@linutronix.de>
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Thomas Gleixner
2010-09-07 14:34:01 +00:00
parent 45f4d02435
commit 4882720b26
2 changed files with 2 additions and 12 deletions
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@ -2794,12 +2794,8 @@ sub process {
WARN("__func__ should be used instead of gcc specific __FUNCTION__\n" . $herecurr);
}
# check for semaphores used as mutexes
if ($line =~ /^.\s*(DECLARE_MUTEX|init_MUTEX)\s*\(/) {
WARN("mutexes are preferred for single holder semaphores\n" . $herecurr);
}
# check for semaphores used as mutexes
if ($line =~ /^.\s*init_MUTEX_LOCKED\s*\(/) {
# check for semaphores initialized locked
if ($line =~ /^.\s*sema_init.+,\W?0\W?\)/) {
WARN("consider using a completion\n" . $herecurr);
}