From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Christopher Li <sparse@chrisli.org>
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] sparse-0.2-cl2 is now available
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 11:41:54 +0100
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> 
> If we keep it 10 times over head, my home computer can load the full linux
> kernel and have some spare for checking.
> 
> I am still working on the bytecode loader and linker for merging symbols.
> It need to answer the question:
> 
> Which file define which function.
> Which external symbol does this function use.
> 
> Once we get the function user/define chain, it can enable a lot of new checking.

At least for interrupts on/off you'll likely need new annotations because
this state can be changed in assembly files before/after calling out to 
C.

For locks this fortunately cannot happen (at least not on x86*) 

-Andi

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