People get this regularly wrong and it breaks the LTO builds, as it causes a section attribute conflict.
Add --fix capability too. Original-patch-by: Andi Kleen <a...@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <j...@perches.com> --- V2: Move it closer to the other attribute check and add the --fix options too. scripts/checkpatch.pl | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 34 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index 47016c3..69443d9 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -241,8 +241,11 @@ our $Sparse = qr{ __ref| __rcu }x; - -our $InitAttribute = qr{__(?:mem|cpu|dev|net_|)(?:initdata|initconst|init\b)}; +our $InitAttributePrefix = qr{__(?:mem|cpu|dev|net_|)}; +our $InitAttributeData = qr{$InitAttributePrefix(?:initdata\b)}; +our $InitAttributeConst = qr{$InitAttributePrefix(?:initconst\b)}; +our $InitAttributeInit = qr{$InitAttributePrefix(?:init\b)}; +our $InitAttribute = qr{$InitAttributeData|$InitAttributeConst|$InitAttributeInit}; # Notes to $Attribute: # We need \b after 'init' otherwise 'initconst' will cause a false positive in a check @@ -3751,6 +3754,35 @@ sub string_find_replace { } } +# check for $InitAttributeData (ie: __initdata) with const + if ($line =~ /\bconst\b/ && $line =~ /($InitAttributeData)/) { + my $attr = $1; + $attr =~ /($InitAttributePrefix)(.*)/; + my $attr_prefix = $1; + my $attr_type = $2; + if (ERROR("INIT_ATTRIBUTE", + "Use of const init definition must use ${attr_prefix}initconst\n" . $herecurr) && + $fix) { + $fixed[$linenr - 1] =~ + s/$InitAttributeData/${attr_prefix}initconst/; + } + } + +# check for $InitAttributeConst (ie: __initconst) without const + if ($line !~ /\bconst\b/ && $line =~ /($InitAttributeConst)/) { + my $attr = $1; + if (ERROR("INIT_ATTRIBUTE", + "Use of $attr requires a separate use of const\n" . $herecurr) && + $fix) { + my $lead = $fixed[$linenr - 1] =~ + /(^\+\s*(?:static\s+))/; + $lead = rtrim($1); + $lead = "$lead " if ($lead !~ /^\+$/); + $lead = "${lead}const "; + $fixed[$linenr - 1] =~ s/(^\+\s*(?:static\s+))/$lead/; + } + } + # prefer usleep_range over udelay if ($line =~ /\budelay\s*\(\s*(\d+)\s*\)/) { # ignore udelay's < 10, however -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/