Merge branch 'misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild

Pull coccinelle updates from Michal Marek:
 "The misc branch is reserved for Coccinelle this time:

   - 'report' is the default mode
   - MAINTAINERS update for Coccinelle
   - documentation udate
   - use new option format for spatch(1)
   - J=<n> variable to mimic make -j for coccicheck
   - check for missing pci_free_consistent() calls

  There are some patches for rpm-pkg and deb-pkg waiting for the
  3.12-rc1 merge window"

* 'misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild:
  Coccinelle: Update information about the minimal version required
  Coccinelle: Update the options used to the new option scheme
  scripts: Coccinelle script for pci_free_consistent()
  Coccinelle: Update the documentation
  Coccinelle: Update section of MAINTAINERS
  coccicheck: span checks across CPUs
  scripts/coccinelle: check for field address argument to kfree
  Coccinelle: Update the Coccinelle section of MAINTAINERS
  Coccinelle: Make 'report' the default mode
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Linus Torvalds
2013-07-10 16:08:06 -07:00
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@@ -6,15 +6,17 @@ Copyright 2010 Gilles Muller <Gilles.Muller@lip6.fr>
Getting Coccinelle
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The semantic patches included in the kernel use the 'virtual rule'
feature which was introduced in Coccinelle version 0.1.11.
The semantic patches included in the kernel use features and options
which are provided by Coccinelle version 1.0.0-rc11 and above.
Using earlier versions will fail as the option names used by
the Coccinelle files and coccicheck have been updated.
Coccinelle (>=0.2.0) is available through the package manager
Coccinelle is available through the package manager
of many distributions, e.g. :
- Debian (>=squeeze)
- Fedora (>=13)
- Ubuntu (>=10.04 Lucid Lynx)
- Debian
- Fedora
- Ubuntu
- OpenSUSE
- Arch Linux
- NetBSD
@@ -36,11 +38,6 @@ as a regular user, and install it with
sudo make install
The semantic patches in the kernel will work best with Coccinelle version
0.2.4 or later. Using earlier versions may incur some parse errors in the
semantic patch code, but any results that are obtained should still be
correct.
Using Coccinelle on the Linux kernel
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
@@ -48,7 +45,7 @@ A Coccinelle-specific target is defined in the top level
Makefile. This target is named 'coccicheck' and calls the 'coccicheck'
front-end in the 'scripts' directory.
Four modes are defined: patch, report, context, and org. The mode to
Four basic modes are defined: patch, report, context, and org. The mode to
use is specified by setting the MODE variable with 'MODE=<mode>'.
'patch' proposes a fix, when possible.
@@ -62,18 +59,24 @@ diff-like style.Lines of interest are indicated with '-'.
'org' generates a report in the Org mode format of Emacs.
Note that not all semantic patches implement all modes. For easy use
of Coccinelle, the default mode is "chain" which tries the previous
modes in the order above until one succeeds.
of Coccinelle, the default mode is "report".
To make a report for every semantic patch, run the following command:
Two other modes provide some common combinations of these modes.
make coccicheck MODE=report
'chain' tries the previous modes in the order above until one succeeds.
NB: The 'report' mode is the default one.
'rep+ctxt' runs successively the report mode and the context mode.
It should be used with the C option (described later)
which checks the code on a file basis.
To produce patches, run:
Examples:
To make a report for every semantic patch, run the following command:
make coccicheck MODE=patch
make coccicheck MODE=report
To produce patches, run:
make coccicheck MODE=patch
The coccicheck target applies every semantic patch available in the
@@ -91,6 +94,11 @@ To enable verbose messages set the V= variable, for example:
make coccicheck MODE=report V=1
By default, coccicheck tries to run as parallel as possible. To change
the parallelism, set the J= variable. For example, to run across 4 CPUs:
make coccicheck MODE=report J=4
Using Coccinelle with a single semantic patch
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
@@ -124,26 +132,33 @@ To check only newly edited code, use the value 2 for the C flag, i.e.
make C=2 CHECK="scripts/coccicheck"
In these modes, which works on a file basis, there is no information
about semantic patches displayed, and no commit message proposed.
This runs every semantic patch in scripts/coccinelle by default. The
COCCI variable may additionally be used to only apply a single
semantic patch as shown in the previous section.
The "chain" mode is the default. You can select another one with the
The "report" mode is the default. You can select another one with the
MODE variable explained above.
In this mode, there is no information about semantic patches
displayed, and no commit message proposed.
Additional flags
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Additional flags can be passed to spatch through the SPFLAGS
variable.
make SPFLAGS=--use_glimpse coccicheck
make SPFLAGS=--use-glimpse coccicheck
make SPFLAGS=--use-idutils coccicheck
See spatch --help to learn more about spatch options.
Note that the '--use-glimpse' and '--use-idutils' options
require external tools for indexing the code. None of them is
thus active by default. However, by indexing the code with
one of these tools, and according to the cocci file used,
spatch could proceed the entire code base more quickly.
Proposing new semantic patches
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~