[PATCH 1/3] checkpatch.pl: add missing memory barriers
Joe Perches
joe at perches.com
Mon Jan 4 08:07:40 PST 2016
On Mon, 2016-01-04 at 13:36 +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> SMP-only barriers were missing in checkpatch.pl
>
> Refactor code slightly to make adding more variants easier.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst at redhat.com>
> ---
> scripts/checkpatch.pl | 9 ++++++++-
> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> index 2b3c228..0245bbe 100755
> --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> @@ -5116,7 +5116,14 @@ sub process {
> }
> }
> # check for memory barriers without a comment.
> - if ($line =~ /\b(mb|rmb|wmb|read_barrier_depends|smp_mb|smp_rmb|smp_wmb|smp_read_barrier_depends)\(/) {
> +
> + my @barriers = ('mb', 'rmb', 'wmb', 'read_barrier_depends');
> + my @smp_barriers = ('smp_store_release', 'smp_load_acquire', 'smp_store_mb');
> +
> + @smp_barriers = (@smp_barriers, map {"smp_" . $_} @barriers);
I think using map, which so far checkpatch doesn't use,
makes smp_barriers harder to understand and it'd be
better to enumerate them.
> + my $all_barriers = join('|', (@barriers, @smp_barriers));
> +
> + if ($line =~ /\b($all_barriers)\(/) {
It would be better to use /\b$all_barriers\s*\(/
as there's no reason for the capture and there
could be a space between the function and the
open parenthesis.
> if (!ctx_has_comment($first_line, $linenr)) {
> WARN("MEMORY_BARRIER",
> "memory barrier without comment\n" . $herecurr);
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