[PATCH v4 1/9] eal: annotate spinlock, rwlock and seqlock

[David Marchand]

On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 9:39 PM Tyler Retzlaff
<roretzla at linux.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 11:42:02AM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > On Thu, 19 Jan 2023 19:46:12 +0100
> > David Marchand <david.marchand at redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > > +#ifndef __DOXYGEN__
> > > +   __rte_exclusive_lock_function(&seqlock->lock)
> > > +#endif
> > >  {
> >
> > Would be cleaner any required ifdefs was in rte_lock_annotations
> > rather than sprinkling the code
>
> we briefly touched on abstracting annotations in another thread. it
> would be favorable if annotations were stashed behind macros that could
> be expanded for more than just clang/internal/under doxygen to make
> available opportunities to use other annotation dialects that may be
> compatible.

I am open to abstractions.
Do you have pointers for an equivalent functionnality in other
compilers/tooling?


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David Marchand