checkpatch: add rules to check init attribute and const defects

People get this regularly wrong and it breaks the LTO builds, as it causes
a section attribute conflict.

Add --fix capability too.

Based on a patch from Andi Kleen.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Joe Perches 2013-11-12 15:10:10 -08:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 52ea85061d
commit e970b8846a

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@ -241,8 +241,11 @@ our $Sparse = qr{
__ref|
__rcu
}x;
our $InitAttribute = qr{__(?:mem|cpu|dev|net_|)(?:initdata|initconst|init\b)};
our $InitAttributePrefix = qr{__(?:mem|cpu|dev|net_|)};
our $InitAttributeData = qr{$InitAttributePrefix(?:initdata\b)};
our $InitAttributeConst = qr{$InitAttributePrefix(?:initconst\b)};
our $InitAttributeInit = qr{$InitAttributePrefix(?:init\b)};
our $InitAttribute = qr{$InitAttributeData|$InitAttributeConst|$InitAttributeInit};
# Notes to $Attribute:
# We need \b after 'init' otherwise 'initconst' will cause a false positive in a check
@ -3759,6 +3762,35 @@ sub process {
}
}
# check for $InitAttributeData (ie: __initdata) with const
if ($line =~ /\bconst\b/ && $line =~ /($InitAttributeData)/) {
my $attr = $1;
$attr =~ /($InitAttributePrefix)(.*)/;
my $attr_prefix = $1;
my $attr_type = $2;
if (ERROR("INIT_ATTRIBUTE",
"Use of const init definition must use ${attr_prefix}initconst\n" . $herecurr) &&
$fix) {
$fixed[$linenr - 1] =~
s/$InitAttributeData/${attr_prefix}initconst/;
}
}
# check for $InitAttributeConst (ie: __initconst) without const
if ($line !~ /\bconst\b/ && $line =~ /($InitAttributeConst)/) {
my $attr = $1;
if (ERROR("INIT_ATTRIBUTE",
"Use of $attr requires a separate use of const\n" . $herecurr) &&
$fix) {
my $lead = $fixed[$linenr - 1] =~
/(^\+\s*(?:static\s+))/;
$lead = rtrim($1);
$lead = "$lead " if ($lead !~ /^\+$/);
$lead = "${lead}const ";
$fixed[$linenr - 1] =~ s/(^\+\s*(?:static\s+))/$lead/;
}
}
# prefer usleep_range over udelay
if ($line =~ /\budelay\s*\(\s*(\d+)\s*\)/) {
# ignore udelay's < 10, however