Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
We have a case in powerpc in which we want to link some library
routines with all module objects. The routines are intended for
handling out-of-line function call register save/restore so having
them as EXPORT_SYMBOL() is counter productive (we do also need to
link the same "library" code into the kernel).
Without this patch a powerpc build would error out and fail
to build modules with the added register save/restore module.
There were two obvious solutions:
1) To link the .o file before the modpost stage
2) To ignore the symbols in modpost
Option 1) was ruled out because we do not have any separate
linking stage for single file modules.
This patch implements option 2 - and do so only for powerpc.
The symbols we ignore are all undefined symbols named:
_restgpr_*, _savegpr_*, _rest32gpr_*, _save32gpr_*
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
This version is a bit of a whopper. This version brings a few new checks,
improvements to a number of checks mostly through modifications to the
way types are parsed, several fixes to quote/comment handling, as well as
the usual slew of fixes for false positives.
Of note:
- return is not a function and is now reported,
- preprocessor directive detection is loosened to match C99 standard,
- we now intuit new type modifiers, and
- comment handling is much improved
Andy Whitcroft (18):
Version: 0.19
fix up a couple of missing newlines in reports
colon to parenthesis spacing varies on asm
values: #include is a preprocessor statement
quotes: fix single character quotes at line end
add typedef exception for the non-pointer "function types"
kerneldoc parameters must be on one line, relax line length
types: word boundary is not always required
improved #define bracketing reports
uninitialized_var is an annotation not a function name
possible types: add possible modifier handling
possible types: fastcall is a type modifier
types: unsigned is not a modifier on all types
static/external initialisation to zero should allow modifiers
checkpatch: fix recognition of preprocessor directives -- part 2
comments: fix inter-hunk comment tracking
return is not a function
do not report include/asm/foo.h use in include/linux/foo.h
return is not a function -- tighten test
[jengelh@computergmbh.de: fix recognition of preprocessor directives]
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
When we introduced support for KBUILD_EXTRA_SYMBOLS
we started to include the externam module's kbuild
file when doing the final modpost step.
As external modules often do:
ccflags-y := -I$(src)
We had problems because $(src) was unassinged and
gcc then used the next parameter for -I resulting in
strange build failures.
Fix is to assign $(src) and $(obj) when building
external modules.
This fixes: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10798
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Tvrtko <tvrtko.ursulin@sophos.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@qumranet.com>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
These magic greps and hacks in ver_linux to get the gcc version always break after some gcc releases.
Since now gcc >4.3 allows compiling with '--with-pkgversion' ( which can be everything 'My Cool Gcc' or something )
ver_linux will report random junk for these.
Simply use 'gcc -dumpversion' to get the gcc version which should always work.
Signed-off-by: Gabriel C <nix.or.die@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
1) The field 'len' of the 'gstr' structure seems to track the size of the memory
already allocated for the "growable string". So the value of this field should be
the same as the 'malloc()' just above, shouldn't it ?
Signed-off-by: Christophe Jaillet <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Allow for unnamed bit-fields and skip them instead of printing an
erroneous warning message for them, such as:
Warning(include/asm-s390/cio.h:103): No description found for parameter 'u32'
which contains:
struct tm_scsw {
u32 :1;
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
reported that he saw a lot of symbols like this:
0000000000000b24 N DW.aio.h.903a6d92.2
0000000000000bce N DW.task_io_accounting.h.8d8de327.0
0000000000000bec N DW.hrtimer.h.c23659c6.0
in his System.map / kallsyms output.
Simple solution is to skip all debugging
symbols (they are marked 'N').
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Paulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.com>
Disable modpost warnings for linkonce sections
My build gives lots of warnings like
WARNING: sound/core/snd.o (.gnu.linkonce.wi.mpspec_def.h.30779716): unexpected section name.
The (.[number]+) following section name are ld generated and not expected.
Did you forget to use "ax"/"aw" in a .S file?
Note that for example <linux/init.h> contains
section definitions for use in .S files.
But for .linkonce. duplicated sections are actually ok and expected.
So just disable the warning for this case.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Not all device types need a wildcard at the end of their module
aliases. In particular, for i2c module aliases, the trailing wildcard
is not only unneeded, it could also cause the wrong driver to be
loaded.
As I2C devices have no IDs, i2c module aliases are simple, arbitrary
device names. For example:
$ /sbin/modinfo lm90
filename: /lib/modules/2.6.25-git18/kernel/drivers/hwmon/lm90.ko
author: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
description: LM90/ADM1032 driver
license: GPL
vermagic: 2.6.25-git18 mod_unload
depends: hwmon
alias: i2c:lm90*
alias: i2c:adm1032*
alias: i2c:lm99*
alias: i2c:lm86*
alias: i2c:max6657*
alias: i2c:adt7461*
alias: i2c:max6680*
$
This would cause trouble if one I2C chip name matches the beginning of
another I2C chip name and both chips are supported by different
drivers. For example, an i2c device named lm9042 would cause the lm90
driver to be loaded, while it doesn't support that device. This case
has yet to be seen in practice, but still, I'd like to fix it now. The
cleanest fix is to remove the trailing wildcard from i2c module aliases.
Here's a patch doing this.
Not all device type aliases need a trailing wildcard, in particular
the i2c aliases don't. Don't add a wildcard by default in do_table(),
instead let each device type handler add it if needed.
I have tested types acpi, dmi, eisa, i2c, ide, ieee1394, input, pci,
pcmcia, platform, pnp, scsi, serio, ssb and usb. Other types (ccw, of,
vio, parisc, sdio and virtio) are untested.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Acked-by: Jochen Friedrich <jochen@scram.de>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
OS-X shell did not like 'echo -e' so implement
suggestion from Al Viro to use a more portable construct.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Acked-By: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
Pointed out by Paulo:
"When I wrote this initially, it was a mistake to add a Changelog in
the first place, but I didn't know better at the time.
If you're going to make changes to this file, please remove all the
Changelog, instead of adding more entries to it. The 'Changelog'
should be kept by the version control system, and not the source code
itself."
Cc: Paulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.com>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Paulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Based on earlier work by Jon Smirl and Jochen Friedrich.
This patch allows new-style i2c chip drivers to have alias names using
the official kernel aliasing system and MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(). At this
point, the old i2c driver binding scheme (driver_name/type) is still
supported.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: Jochen Friedrich <jochen@scram.de>
Cc: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
This version brings a few fixes for the extern checks, and a couple of
new checks.
Of note:
- false is now recognised as a 0 assignment in static/external
assignments,
- printf format strings including %L are reported,
- a number of fixes for the extern in .c file detector which had
temporarily lost its ability to detect variables; undetected due to
the loss of its test.
Andy Whitcroft (8):
Version: 0.18
false should trip 0 assignment checks
tests: reinstate missing tests
tests: allow specification of the file extension for a test
fix extern checks for variables
check for and report %Lu, %Ld, and %Li
ensure we only start a statement on lines with some content
extern spacing
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This version brings improvements to external declaration detection, fixes to
quote tracking, fixes to unary tracking, some clarification of wording, and
the usual slew of fixes for false positives.
Of note:
- much better unary tracking across preprocessor directives
- UTF8 checks highlight the character at fault
- widening of mutex detection
Andy Whitcroft (17):
Version: 0.17
values: __attribute__ carries through the previous type
quotes: should only follow "positive" lines
clarify the indent tabs over spaces wording
loosen NR_CPUS check for array range initialisers
detect external function declarations without an extern prefix
function declaration arguments should be with the identifier
DEFINE_MUTEX should report in line with struct mutex
NR_CPUS is valid in preprocessor statements
comment detection should not start on the @@ line
types: add support for #undef
tighten mutex/completion reports to usage
allow export of function pointers
values: preprocessor #define is out of line maintain values
values: #define does not always have parentheses
unary '*' may be const
utf8 checks should report location of the invalid character
Wolfram Sang (1):
make checkpatch.pl really skip <asm/irq.h>
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
As choice dependency are now fully checked, it's quite easy to add support
for named choices. This lifts the restriction that a choice value can only
appear once, although it still has to be within the same group,
but multiple choices can be joined by giving them a name.
While at it I cleaned up a little the choice type logic to simplify it a
bit.
Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Properly check the dependency of choices as a group.
Also fix that sym_check_deps() correctly terminates the dependency loop
error check (otherwise it would continue printing the dependency chain).
Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
On a Mac OS X machine the output of ls -l is different from a standard
Linux machine. Use readlink instead of parsing a hardcoded field number
from the ls output.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Fix reversal of dlg.border.atr and dlg.dialog.atr for draw_box()
Makes the inputbox look like expected
Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <12o3l@tiscali.nl>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Print a warning when a kernel-doc comment block ends with text on the same
line as the ending comment characters, e.g.:
* this text is lost. */
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
I saw this problem recently. With this kernel-doc:
* Note: some important info
*
* Note: other important info
kernel-doc uses the "section name" (preceding the ':', like "Note") as a hash
key for storing the descriptive text ("blah important info"). It is (was)
possible to have duplicate (colliding) section names, without any kind of
warning or error.
kernel-doc happily used the latter descriptive text for all instances of
printing the <section-name> descriptive text and the former important info
was lost.
One way to "fix" this is to modify the kernel-doc comments, e.g.:
* Note1: foo bar
*
* Note.2: blah zay
For now, kernel-doc will signal an error when it sees colliding section names
like this.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
