Re: [Linux-kernel-mentees] Regarding "Linux Kernel: Evaluate and Improve checkpatch.pl"

["Ayush" <ayush@disroot.org>]

August 27, 2020 10:59 AM, "Lukas Bulwahn" <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 24 Aug 2020, Ayush wrote:
> 
>> August 22, 2020 1:36 PM, "Lukas Bulwahn" <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> On Fri, 21 Aug 2020, Ayush wrote:
>> 
>> Hints to the first task:
>> 
>> Can you create a list of all non-merge commits that were added in the
>> version v5.8 of the kernel, i.e., all non-merge commits that are in v5.8
>> and not already in v5.7?
>> 
>> Can you share the script/command you executed and the resulting list on
>> github?
>> 
>> Can you run your script on all commits of this list above and record
>> all checkpatch.pl reports, and store them in your github repository?
>> 
>> Can you suggest ideas how to aggregate the findings and create a
>> statistics? For example: Which type of error is reported most?
>> Can you implement that idea?
>> 
>> I also suggest to have a look at
>> the options ./scripts/checkpatch.pl --list-types and
>> ./scripts/checkpatch.pl --show-types. The option --show-types changes
>> the output of checkpatch.pl to list type identifiers, so it is easier
>> to parse and aggregate the output.
>> 
>> Please also share the script you create for that purpose on your
>> github repository.
>> 
>> The second task is to pick one warning that appears often and improve
>> checkpatch.pl to handle that better and get it accepted by the kernel
>> community.
>> 
>> Hints to the second task follow when the first task is solved.
>> 
>> If you fail on any of those tasks, you are out of the selection process.
>> 
>> Lukas
>> 
>> Sir,
>> 
>> I have attempted the task 1 and pushed the same to GitHub.
>> 
>> Please have a look and suggest improvements.
>> 
>> https://github.com/eldraco19/evalute_improve_checkpatch_pl
>> 
>> Please let me know if there are any issues with this.
>> 
>> So far, so good.
>> 
>> Here are the questions we want to answer:
>> 
>> - So what are the 20 categories that occur most?
>> 
>> You are getting close to that answer, but you are not there yet.
>> 
>> Then look at the findings. For those 20 categories, are there specific
>> findings that are multiple times false positives?
>> 
>> So, the script complains about something, but it does not get that the
>> patch author wrote something completely unrelated to the error message.
>> 
>> Lukas
>> 
>> Sir,
>> 
>> I tried the given tasks and it can be found here,
>> 
>> https://github.com/eldraco19/evalute_improve_checkpatch_pl/blob/master/STATS.md
> 
> The solution is implemented a bit complicated, but well, at least, it
> works if I believe your report. (I only read the code, but did not run
> it.)
> 
> The goal now is to find a class of false positives and improve
> checkpatch.pl accordingly.
> 
> I suggest that you look at the specific DIFF_IN_COMMIT_MSG reported
> errors?
> 
> Provide a short assessment for each DIFF_IN_COMMIT_MSG error in the
> 10 commits.
> 
> It should tell:
> - what lines in the commit message did checkpatch.pl complain about?
> - what is the pattern in the commit message?
> - does patch(1) really stumble over that pattern?
> - how would this pattern need to be provided to patch(1) so that it
> would stumble over it?
> - if no, why not?
> - can we change checkpatch.pl to not raise an error for such a
> situation? So, only raise an error when the pattern would really make
> patch stumble on it?
> 
> Depending on the evaluation, we might continue to improve checkpatch.pl
> for reporting this error type, or we decide to look at GIT_COMMIT_ID
> errors, where I can quickly spot some false positives.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Lukas

Sir,

I analysed the given error type and my analysis can be found here:

https://github.com/eldraco19/evalute_improve_checkpatch_pl/blob/master/DIFF_IN_COMMIT_MSG.md

Please review it.

Thanks.
Ayush
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