From: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@inria.fr>
To: Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de>
Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>,
Coccinelle <cocci@systeme.lip6.fr>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Liam Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>,
Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>,
Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
Ying Han <yinghan@google.com>,
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.ibm.com>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Subject: Re: [Cocci] [v3 05/10] mmap locking API: Improving the Coccinelle software
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2020 10:47:38 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.21.2003301046530.2432@hadrien> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2c74e465-249d-eeb8-86fe-462b93bfe743@web.de>
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On Mon, 30 Mar 2020, Markus Elfring wrote:
> >> How will corresponding software development resources evolve?
> >
> > I don't think I understand the question, or, actually, are you asking
> > me or the coccinelle developers ?
>
> I hope that more development challenges will be picked up.
>
> The code from a mentioned source file can be reduced to the following
> test file.
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/paging_tmpl.h?id=7111951b8d4973bda27ff663f2cf18b663d15b48#n122
>
> // deleted part
> static inline int FNAME(is_present_gpte)(unsigned long pte)
> {
> #if PTTYPE != PTTYPE_EPT
> return pte & PT_PRESENT_MASK;
> #else
> return pte & 7;
> #endif
> }
> // deleted part
>
>
> Application of the software “Coccinelle 1.0.8-00029-ga549b9f0” (OCaml 4.10.0)
>
> elfring@Sonne:~/Projekte/Coccinelle/Probe> spatch --parse-c paging_tmpl-excerpt1.h
> …
> (ONCE) CPP-MACRO: found known macro = FNAME
> …
> parse error
> = File "paging_tmpl-excerpt1.h", line 2, column 41, charpos = 57
> around = 'unsigned',
> …
> BAD:!!!!! static inline int FNAME(is_present_gpte)(unsigned long pte)
> …
> NB total files = 1; perfect = 0; pbs = 1; timeout = 0; =========> 0%
> nb good = 1, nb passed = 1 =========> 10.00% passed
> nb good = 1, nb bad = 8 =========> 20.00% good or passed
>
>
> How would you like to improve the affected software areas?
This can be addressed by adding a macro definition to standard.h.
But once the change is done, I don't see any reason to bother with this.
julia
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-30 8:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-27 22:50 [PATCH v3 00/10] Add a new mmap locking API wrapping mmap_sem calls Michel Lespinasse
2020-03-27 22:50 ` [PATCH v3 01/10] mmap locking API: initial implementation as rwsem wrappers Michel Lespinasse
2020-03-28 8:57 ` [PATCH v3 01/10] mmap locking API: initial implementation as rwsem wrappers (Michel Lespinasse) SeongJae Park
2020-03-27 22:50 ` [PATCH v3 02/10] MMU notifier: use the new mmap locking API Michel Lespinasse
2020-03-27 22:50 ` [PATCH v3 03/10] DMA reservations: " Michel Lespinasse
2020-03-27 22:50 ` [PATCH v3 04/10] mmap locking API: use coccinelle to convert mmap_sem rwsem call sites Michel Lespinasse
2020-03-27 22:50 ` [PATCH v3 05/10] mmap locking API: convert mmap_sem call sites missed by coccinelle Michel Lespinasse
2020-03-28 7:36 ` Markus Elfring
2020-03-28 7:47 ` Michel Lespinasse
2020-03-28 8:39 ` [v3 " Markus Elfring
2020-03-28 8:53 ` Michel Lespinasse
2020-03-28 9:01 ` Markus Elfring
2020-03-28 13:20 ` [v3 05/10] mmap locking API: Checking the Coccinelle software Markus Elfring
2020-03-28 13:42 ` [Cocci] " Julia Lawall
2020-03-28 13:52 ` Markus Elfring
2020-03-28 13:53 ` Julia Lawall
2020-03-28 14:00 ` Julia Lawall
2020-03-28 14:16 ` Markus Elfring
2020-03-30 6:10 ` [v3 05/10] mmap locking API: Improving " Markus Elfring
2020-03-30 8:47 ` Julia Lawall [this message]
2020-03-30 10:15 ` [Cocci] " Markus Elfring
2020-03-30 10:20 ` Julia Lawall
2020-03-30 10:42 ` Markus Elfring
2020-04-13 17:06 ` [PATCH v3 05/10] mmap locking API: convert mmap_sem call sites missed by coccinelle Daniel Jordan
2020-03-27 22:50 ` [PATCH v3 06/10] mmap locking API: convert nested write lock sites Michel Lespinasse
2020-04-01 13:42 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-04-06 15:35 ` Michel Lespinasse
2020-04-06 15:58 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-03-27 22:50 ` [PATCH v3 07/10] mmap locking API: add mmap_read_release() and mmap_read_unlock_non_owner() Michel Lespinasse
2020-04-01 13:46 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-04-06 15:39 ` Michel Lespinasse
2020-03-27 22:51 ` [PATCH v3 08/10] mmap locking API: add MMAP_LOCK_INITIALIZER Michel Lespinasse
2020-03-27 22:51 ` [PATCH v3 09/10] mmap locking API: use lockdep_assert_held Michel Lespinasse
2020-03-27 22:51 ` [PATCH v3 10/10] mmap locking API: rename mmap_sem to mmap_lock Michel Lespinasse
2020-04-01 13:48 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-04-06 15:49 ` Michel Lespinasse
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