2e44e8033a
Checkpatch.pl doesn't have a check for excluding while (...) {...} blocks
from MULTISTATEMENT_MACRO_USE_DO_WHILE error.
For example, running checkpatch.pl on the file mm/maccess.c in the kernel
generates the following error:
ERROR: Macros with complex values should be enclosed in parentheses
+#define copy_from_kernel_nofault_loop(dst, src, len, type, err_label) \
+ while (len >= sizeof(type)) { \
+ __get_kernel_nofault(dst, src, type, err_label); \
+ dst += sizeof(type); \
+ src += sizeof(type); \
+ len -= sizeof(type); \
+ }
The error is misleading for this case. Enclosing it in parentheses
doesn't make any sense.
Checkpatch already has an exception list for such common macro types.
Added a new exception for while (...) {...} style blocks to the same.
In addition, the brace flatten logic was modified by changing the
substitution characters from "1" to "1u". This was done to ensure that
macros in the form "#define foo(bar) while(bar){bar--;}" were also
correctly procecssed.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-kernel-mentees/dc985938aa3986702815a0bd68dfca8a03c85447.camel@perches.com/
Suggested-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201001171903.312021-1-dwaipayanray1@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.