On 04/16/2015 12:31 PM, Jeff Haran wrote: >> From: [email protected] >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mark P >> Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2015 8:12 AM >> To: Ruben Safir >> Cc: nick; [email protected] >> Subject: Re: Kernel thread scheduling >> >> I find that the free electrons LXR has the best search capabilities: >> >> http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/include/linux/rbtree.h#L35 >> -M > > Those interested in kernel source browsers might want to check out the code > browser available at https://scan.coverity.com. > > Coverity does static code analysis and sells a product to do so, but they do > regular scans of popular open source projects. Most of their focus is on > finding and reporting defects, but the code browser they have created to do > so is far beyond anything else I've found out there. Getting to it is a > little awkward, you first need to sign up for an account (I got mine for > free), then browse to the linux kernel project and select a defect to get > into the browser. But once there, click the folder icon at the top left of > the code window and select a source file. All of function names, variable > names, structure names and structure field names are hyperlinks. Left click > on one of them, click the little down arrow and select from the menu to list > definitions, references, etc. > > You do need to find a reference to the token in question using some other > browser like LXR, Coverity's doesn't seem to have a search button for that, > but once located the cross-referencing provided is better than what I've seen > in other text matching browsers like LXR, cscope, etc. It's particular good > when you are trying to understand how a given field of a structure is used. > Say you want to find out how a structure field named "lock" in some structure > named "foo" is referenced. Find the definition of struct foo, click on the > lock field and list references. It will show all the references to struct > foo's lock but NOT show the thousands of references to all of the other > fields named "lock" in other structures. That is something no other browser > does, at least none that I am aware of. > > Jeff Haran >
Is it free software? Can I download it? How is it better than grep and sed? Does it work better than ctags? How can I get it to ingrate with vim? First off, if it is not available as free Software, then I won't use it. > _______________________________________________ > Kernelnewbies mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies > > _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
