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authorJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>2021-02-26 04:21:50 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2021-02-26 20:41:04 +0300
commitadb2da82fcf99b6006fbaf3e3cd12649365fc967 (patch)
tree3e987f78e6ca7c87e6c5522806c50504d371c26c /scripts
parentea7dbab3e5054db7c013579096cfe7b0f10d1d65 (diff)
downloadlinux-adb2da82fcf99b6006fbaf3e3cd12649365fc967.tar.xz
checkpatch: prefer ftrace over function entry/exit printks
Prefer using ftrace over function entry/exit logging messages. Warn with various function entry/exit only logging that only use __func__ with or without descriptive decoration. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/47c01081533a417c99c9a80a4cd537f8c308503f.camel@perches.com Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts')
-rwxr-xr-xscripts/checkpatch.pl35
1 files changed, 35 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 345879a305be..736129c21c16 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -507,6 +507,30 @@ our $signature_tags = qr{(?xi:
Cc:
)};
+our $tracing_logging_tags = qr{(?xi:
+ [=-]*> |
+ <[=-]* |
+ \[ |
+ \] |
+ start |
+ called |
+ entered |
+ entry |
+ enter |
+ in |
+ inside |
+ here |
+ begin |
+ exit |
+ end |
+ done |
+ leave |
+ completed |
+ out |
+ return |
+ [\.\!:\s]*
+)};
+
sub edit_distance_min {
my (@arr) = @_;
my $len = scalar @arr;
@@ -5972,6 +5996,17 @@ sub process {
"Prefer using '\"%s...\", __func__' to using '$context_function', this function's name, in a string\n" . $herecurr);
}
+# check for unnecessary function tracing like uses
+# This does not use $logFunctions because there are many instances like
+# 'dprintk(FOO, "%s()\n", __func__);' which do not match $logFunctions
+ if ($rawline =~ /^\+.*\([^"]*"$tracing_logging_tags{0,3}%s(?:\s*\(\s*\)\s*)?$tracing_logging_tags{0,3}(?:\\n)?"\s*,\s*__func__\s*\)\s*;/) {
+ if (WARN("TRACING_LOGGING",
+ "Unnecessary ftrace-like logging - prefer using ftrace\n" . $herecurr) &&
+ $fix) {
+ fix_delete_line($fixlinenr, $rawline);
+ }
+ }
+
# check for spaces before a quoted newline
if ($rawline =~ /^.*\".*\s\\n/) {
if (WARN("QUOTED_WHITESPACE_BEFORE_NEWLINE",