On Sun, 2017-12-17 at 22:00 -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 17, 2017 at 03:14:10AM +0100, Knut Omang wrote:
>
> > > I like the ability to add more checkers and keep then in the main
> > > upstream tree. But adding overrides for specific subsystems goes against
> > > the policy that all subsystems should be treated equally.
> >
> > This is a tool to enable automated testing for as many checks as
> > possible, as soon as possible. Like any tool, it can be misused, but
> > that's IMHO an orthogonal problem that I think the maintainers will
> > be more than capable of preventing.
> >
> > Think of this as a tightening screw: We eliminate errors class by
> > class or file by file, and in the same commit narrows in the list of
> > exceptions. That way we can fix issues piece by piece while avoiding
> > a lot of regressions in already clean parts.
>
> Since you used drivers/infiniband as an example for this script..
>
> I will say I agree with this idea.
>
> It is not that we *want* infiniband to be different from the rest of
> the kernel, it is that we have this historical situation where we
> don't have a code base that already passes the various static checker
> things.
>
> I would like it very much if I could run 'make static checker' and see
> no warnings. This helps me know that I when I accept patches I am not
> introducing new problems to code that has already been cleaned up.
>
> Today when we run checkers we get so many warnings it is too hard to
> make any sense of it.
Here is a list of the checkpatch messages for drivers/infiniband
sorted by type.
Many of these might be corrected by using
$ ./scripts/checkpatch.pl -f --fix-inplace --types=<TYPE> \
$(git ls-files drivers/infiniband/)
5243 CHECK:CAMELCASE
4487 WARNING:LONG_LINE
1755 CHECK:PARENTHESIS_ALIGNMENT
1664 CHECK:SPACING
910 WARNING:FUNCTION_ARGUMENTS
742 CHECK:OPEN_ENDED_LINE
685 CHECK:BRACES
643 CHECK:UNNECESSARY_PARENTHESES
478 WARNING:SIZEOF_PARENTHESIS
361 WARNING:UNSPECIFIED_INT
342 WARNING:LONG_LINE_COMMENT
338 ERROR:SPACING
338 CHECK:LINE_SPACING
306 WARNING:SPLIT_STRING
278 WARNING:SPACING
242 WARNING:SYMBOLIC_PERMS
194 WARNING:BLOCK_COMMENT_STYLE
175 CHECK:BIT_MACRO
158 WARNING:SPACE_BEFORE_TAB
154 WARNING:LINE_SPACING
139 CHECK:MACRO_ARG_REUSE
133 CHECK:UNCOMMENTED_DEFINITION
122 CHECK:AVOID_BUG
103 CHECK:COMPARISON_TO_NULL
101 WARNING:ENOSYS
89 WARNING:BRACES
78 WARNING:PREFER_PR_LEVEL
74 WARNING:MULTILINE_DEREFERENCE
59 CHECK:TYPO_SPELLING
52 WARNING:EMBEDDED_FUNCTION_NAME
52 CHECK:MULTIPLE_ASSIGNMENTS
50 CHECK:PREFER_KERNEL_TYPES
45 WARNING:RETURN_VOID
39 WARNING:UNNECESSARY_ELSE
38 ERROR:POINTER_LOCATION
37 WARNING:ALLOC_WITH_MULTIPLY
36 CHECK:ALLOC_SIZEOF_STRUCT
35 CHECK:AVOID_EXTERNS
34 WARNING:PRINTK_WITHOUT_KERN_LEVEL
33 ERROR:CODE_INDENT
32 WARNING:PREFER_PACKED
32 CHECK:LOGICAL_CONTINUATIONS
29 WARNING:MEMORY_BARRIER
29 WARNING:LEADING_SPACE
28 WARNING:DEEP_INDENTATION
27 CHECK:USLEEP_RANGE
23 WARNING:SUSPECT_CODE_INDENT
23 ERROR:TRAILING_STATEMENTS
21 WARNING:LONG_LINE_STRING
20 WARNING:CONSIDER_KSTRTO
18 WARNING:CONSTANT_COMPARISON
18 ERROR:OPEN_BRACE
15 WARNING:QUOTED_WHITESPACE_BEFORE_NEWLINE
14 WARNING:VOLATILE
14 ERROR:SWITCH_CASE_INDENT_LEVEL
11 WARNING:OOM_MESSAGE
11 WARNING:INCLUDE_LINUX
10 WARNING:SSCANF_TO_KSTRTO
10 WARNING:INDENTED_LABEL
9 ERROR:GLOBAL_INITIALISERS
9 ERROR:COMPLEX_MACRO
9 ERROR:ASSIGN_IN_IF
8 WARNING:UNNECESSARY_BREAK
6 WARNING:PRINTF_L
6 WARNING:MISORDERED_TYPE
6 ERROR:INITIALISED_STATIC
5 WARNING:TABSTOP
5 WARNING:SINGLE_STATEMENT_DO_WHILE_MACRO
5 WARNING:NAKED_SSCANF
4 WARNING:NEEDLESS_IF
4 ERROR:RETURN_PARENTHESES
4 CHECK:BOOL_COMPARISON
3 WARNING:TRAILING_SEMICOLON
3 WARNING:STATIC_CONST_CHAR_ARRAY
3 ERROR:TRAILING_WHITESPACE
2 WARNING:UNNECESSARY_PARENTHESES
2 WARNING:MISSING_SPACE
2 WARNING:LOGGING_CONTINUATION
2 CHECK:ARCH_DEFINES
1 WARNING:TYPECAST_INT_CONSTANT
1 WARNING:PREFER_DEV_LEVEL
1 WARNING:NR_CPUS
1 WARNING:NEW_TYPEDEFS
1 WARNING:MINMAX
1 WARNING:MACRO_WITH_FLOW_CONTROL
1 WARNING:LINE_CONTINUATIONS
1 WARNING:DO_WHILE_MACRO_WITH_TRAILING_SEMICOLON
1 WARNING:DEFAULT_NO_BREAK
1 WARNING:CONST_STRUCT
1 WARNING:CONSIDER_COMPLETION
1 ERROR:WHILE_AFTER_BRACE
1 ERROR:ELSE_AFTER_BRACE
1 CHECK:REDUNDANT_CODE
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