summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/scripts/checkpatch.pl
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>2020-12-16 07:45:24 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2020-12-16 09:46:17 +0300
commitf5eea3b0442da801404859a780c02721d649f02f (patch)
treed65e17aac3c9466644087feadf593bb6dff14adc /scripts/checkpatch.pl
parent7da07c31b1df1fa973d184378862443302fd1129 (diff)
downloadlinux-f5eea3b0442da801404859a780c02721d649f02f.tar.xz
checkpatch: add printk_once and printk_ratelimit to prefer pr_<level> warning
Add the _once and _ratelimited variants to the test for printk(KERN_<LEVEL> that should prefer pr_<level>. Miscellanea: o Add comment description for the conversions [joe@perches.com: fixlet] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/32260871d4718ba7f48a8e9e07452bb76de300db.camel@perches.comLink: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/993b72b2ef91a57c5e725b52971ce3fd31375061.camel@perches.com Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts/checkpatch.pl')
-rwxr-xr-xscripts/checkpatch.pl13
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 7b086d1cd6c2..00085308ed9d 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -4543,16 +4543,23 @@ sub process {
"printk() should include KERN_<LEVEL> facility level\n" . $herecurr);
}
- if ($line =~ /\bprintk\s*\(\s*KERN_([A-Z]+)/) {
- my $orig = $1;
+# prefer variants of (subsystem|netdev|dev|pr)_<level> to printk(KERN_<LEVEL>
+ if ($line =~ /\b(printk(_once|_ratelimited)?)\s*\(\s*KERN_([A-Z]+)/) {
+ my $printk = $1;
+ my $modifier = $2;
+ my $orig = $3;
+ $modifier = "" if (!defined($modifier));
my $level = lc($orig);
$level = "warn" if ($level eq "warning");
my $level2 = $level;
$level2 = "dbg" if ($level eq "debug");
+ $level .= $modifier;
+ $level2 .= $modifier;
WARN("PREFER_PR_LEVEL",
- "Prefer [subsystem eg: netdev]_$level2([subsystem]dev, ... then dev_$level2(dev, ... then pr_$level(... to printk(KERN_$orig ...\n" . $herecurr);
+ "Prefer [subsystem eg: netdev]_$level2([subsystem]dev, ... then dev_$level2(dev, ... then pr_$level(... to $printk(KERN_$orig ...\n" . $herecurr);
}
+# prefer dev_<level> to dev_printk(KERN_<LEVEL>
if ($line =~ /\bdev_printk\s*\(\s*KERN_([A-Z]+)/) {
my $orig = $1;
my $level = lc($orig);