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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: bpf@vger.kernel.org, Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: do not apply "initialise globals to 0" check to BPF progs
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2021 22:29:50 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ec5ac2e1a41000da9a7158491a22f83295c1a6.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210208234002.3294265-1-songliubraving@fb.com>

On Mon, 2021-02-08 at 15:40 -0800, Song Liu wrote:
> BPF programs explicitly initialise global variables to 0 to make sure
> clang (v10 or older) do not put the variables in the common section.
> Skip "initialise globals to 0" check for BPF programs to elimiate error
> messages like:
> 
>     ERROR: do not initialise globals to 0
>     #19: FILE: samples/bpf/tracex1_kern.c:21:
[]
> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
[]
> @@ -4323,7 +4323,11 @@ sub process {
>  		}
>  
> 
>  # check for global initialisers.
> -		if ($line =~ /^\+$Type\s*$Ident(?:\s+$Modifier)*\s*=\s*($zero_initializer)\s*;/) {
> +# Do not apply to BPF programs (tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/*.c, samples/bpf/*_kern.c, *.bpf.c).
> +		if ($line =~ /^\+$Type\s*$Ident(?:\s+$Modifier)*\s*=\s*($zero_initializer)\s*;/ &&
> +		    $realfile !~ /^tools\/testing\/selftests\/bpf\/progs\/.*\.c/ &&
> +		    $realfile !~ /^samples\/bpf\/.*_kern.c/ &&
> +		    $realfile !~ /.bpf.c$/) {

probably better to make this a function so when additional files are
added it'd be easier to update this and it will not look as complex.

		if ($line =~ /.../ &&
		    !exclude_global_initialisers($realfile))


>  			if (ERROR("GLOBAL_INITIALISERS",
>  				  "do not initialise globals to $1\n" . $herecurr) &&
>  			    $fix) {



  reply	other threads:[~2021-02-09  6:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-02-08 23:40 [PATCH] checkpatch: do not apply "initialise globals to 0" check to BPF progs Song Liu
2021-02-09  6:29 ` Joe Perches [this message]
2021-02-09 16:47   ` Song Liu
2021-02-09  6:31 ` Joe Perches

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