Total patches: 107
Reviews/patch: 1.07
Reviewed rate: 67%
- The 2 patch series "ocfs2: give ocfs2 the ability to reclaim
suballocator free bg" from Heming Zhao saves disk space by teaching
ocfs2 to reclaim suballocator block group space.
- The 4 patch series "Add ARRAY_END(), and use it to fix off-by-one
bugs" from Alejandro Colomar adds the ARRAY_END() macro and uses it in
various places.
- The 2 patch series "vmcoreinfo: support VMCOREINFO_BYTES larger than
PAGE_SIZE" from Pnina Feder makes the vmcore code future-safe, if
VMCOREINFO_BYTES ever exceeds the page size.
- The 7 patch series "kallsyms: Prevent invalid access when showing
module buildid" from Petr Mladek cleans up kallsyms code related to
module buildid and fixes an invalid access crash when printing
backtraces.
- The 3 patch series "Address page fault in
ima_restore_measurement_list()" from Harshit Mogalapalli fixes a
kexec-related crash that can occur when booting the second-stage kernel
on x86.
- The 6 patch series "kho: ABI headers and Documentation updates" from
Mike Rapoport updates the kexec handover ABI documentation.
- The 4 patch series "Align atomic storage" from Finn Thain adds the
__aligned attribute to atomic_t and atomic64_t definitions to get
natural alignment of both types on csky, m68k, microblaze, nios2,
openrisc and sh.
- The 2 patch series "kho: clean up page initialization logic" from
Pratyush Yadav simplifies the page initialization logic in
kho_restore_page().
- The 6 patch series "Unload linux/kernel.h" from Yury Norov moves
several things out of kernel.h and into more appropriate places.
- The 7 patch series "don't abuse task_struct.group_leader" from Oleg
Nesterov removes the usage of ->group_leader when it is "obviously
unnecessary".
- The 5 patch series "list private v2 & luo flb" from Pasha Tatashin
adds some infrastructure improvements to the live update orchestrator.
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
iHUEABYKAB0WIQTTMBEPP41GrTpTJgfdBJ7gKXxAjgUCaY4giAAKCRDdBJ7gKXxA
jgusAQDnKkP8UWTqXPC1jI+OrDJGU5ciAx8lzLeBVqMKzoYk9AD/TlhT2Nlx+Ef6
0HCUHUD0FMvAw/7/Dfc6ZKxwBEIxyww=
=mmsH
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2026-02-12-10-48' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:
- "ocfs2: give ocfs2 the ability to reclaim suballocator free bg" saves
disk space by teaching ocfs2 to reclaim suballocator block group
space (Heming Zhao)
- "Add ARRAY_END(), and use it to fix off-by-one bugs" adds the
ARRAY_END() macro and uses it in various places (Alejandro Colomar)
- "vmcoreinfo: support VMCOREINFO_BYTES larger than PAGE_SIZE" makes
the vmcore code future-safe, if VMCOREINFO_BYTES ever exceeds the
page size (Pnina Feder)
- "kallsyms: Prevent invalid access when showing module buildid" cleans
up kallsyms code related to module buildid and fixes an invalid
access crash when printing backtraces (Petr Mladek)
- "Address page fault in ima_restore_measurement_list()" fixes a
kexec-related crash that can occur when booting the second-stage
kernel on x86 (Harshit Mogalapalli)
- "kho: ABI headers and Documentation updates" updates the kexec
handover ABI documentation (Mike Rapoport)
- "Align atomic storage" adds the __aligned attribute to atomic_t and
atomic64_t definitions to get natural alignment of both types on
csky, m68k, microblaze, nios2, openrisc and sh (Finn Thain)
- "kho: clean up page initialization logic" simplifies the page
initialization logic in kho_restore_page() (Pratyush Yadav)
- "Unload linux/kernel.h" moves several things out of kernel.h and into
more appropriate places (Yury Norov)
- "don't abuse task_struct.group_leader" removes the usage of
->group_leader when it is "obviously unnecessary" (Oleg Nesterov)
- "list private v2 & luo flb" adds some infrastructure improvements to
the live update orchestrator (Pasha Tatashin)
* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2026-02-12-10-48' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (107 commits)
watchdog/hardlockup: simplify perf event probe and remove per-cpu dependency
procfs: fix missing RCU protection when reading real_parent in do_task_stat()
watchdog/softlockup: fix sample ring index wrap in need_counting_irqs()
kcsan, compiler_types: avoid duplicate type issues in BPF Type Format
kho: fix doc for kho_restore_pages()
tests/liveupdate: add in-kernel liveupdate test
liveupdate: luo_flb: introduce File-Lifecycle-Bound global state
liveupdate: luo_file: Use private list
list: add kunit test for private list primitives
list: add primitives for private list manipulations
delayacct: fix uapi timespec64 definition
panic: add panic_force_cpu= parameter to redirect panic to a specific CPU
netclassid: use thread_group_leader(p) in update_classid_task()
RDMA/umem: don't abuse current->group_leader
drm/pan*: don't abuse current->group_leader
drm/amd: kill the outdated "Only the pthreads threading model is supported" checks
drm/amdgpu: don't abuse current->group_leader
android/binder: use same_thread_group(proc->tsk, current) in binder_mmap()
android/binder: don't abuse current->group_leader
kho: skip memoryless NUMA nodes when reserving scratch areas
...
Some versions of tools that apply patches incorrectly allow lines that
start with 3 dashes and have additional content on the same line.
Checkpatch will now emit an ERROR on these lines and optionally convert
those lines from dashes to equals with --fix.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/6ec1ed08328340db42655287afd5fa4067316b11.camel@perches.com
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Suggested-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Cc: Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@gmail.com>
Cc: Kuan-Wei Chiu <visitorckw@gmail.com>
Cc: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Cc: Namhyung kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Stehen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
For several years, and still ongoing, the kernel.h is being split
to smaller and narrow headers to avoid "including everything" approach
which is bad in many ways. Since that, documentation missed a few
required updates to align with that work. Do it here.
Note, language translations are left untouched and if anybody willing
to help, please provide path(es) based on the updated English variant.
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <20251126214709.2322314-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
individual changelogs for details.
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
iHUEABYIAB0WIQTTMBEPP41GrTpTJgfdBJ7gKXxAjgUCaTsgBwAKCRDdBJ7gKXxA
jkSIAP4jD66nEC2QyKTiv9XvXi8rpKz6RGAHNZSam0ucI5WKswEAoflmlqsoD/Kk
sN3YLwLztzCJIYU7tT3IRaPK0irwDAo=
=nkux
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-12-11-11-47' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
Pull misc updates from Andrew Morton:
"There are no significant series in this small merge. Please see the
individual changelogs for details"
[ Editor's note: it's mainly ocfs2 and a couple of random fixes ]
* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-12-11-11-47' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm:
mm: memfd_luo: add CONFIG_SHMEM dependency
mm: shmem: avoid build warning for CONFIG_SHMEM=n
ocfs2: fix memory leak in ocfs2_merge_rec_left()
ocfs2: invalidate inode if i_mode is zero after block read
ocfs2: avoid -Wflex-array-member-not-at-end warning
ocfs2: convert remaining read-only checks to ocfs2_emergency_state
ocfs2: add ocfs2_emergency_state helper and apply to setattr
checkpatch: add uninitialized pointer with __free attribute check
args: fix documentation to reflect the correct numbers
ocfs2: fix kernel BUG in ocfs2_find_victim_chain
liveupdate: luo_core: fix redundant bound check in luo_ioctl()
ocfs2: validate inline xattr size and entry count in ocfs2_xattr_ibody_list
fs/fat: remove unnecessary wrapper fat_max_cache()
ocfs2: replace deprecated strcpy with strscpy
ocfs2: check tl_used after reading it from trancate log inode
liveupdate: luo_file: don't use invalid list iterator
Uinitialized pointers with __free attribute can cause undefined behavior
as the memory randomly assigned to the pointer is freed automatically when
the pointer goes out of scope. add check in checkpatch to detect such
issues.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251203-aheev-checkpatch-uninitialized-free-v7-1-841e3b31d8f3@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ally Heev <allyheev@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/8a4c0b43-cf63-400d-b33d-d9c447b7e0b9@suswa.mountain/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/58fd478f408a34b578ee8d949c5c4b4da4d4f41d.camel@HansenPartnership.com/
Acked-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Cc: David Hunter <david.hunter.linux@gmail.com>
Cc: Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@gmail.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: James Bottomley <james.bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Cc: Menon, Nishanth <nm@ti.com>
Cc: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org>
Cc: Viresh Kumar <vireshk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
- The 6 patch series "panic: sys_info: Refactor and fix a potential
issue" from Andy Shevchenko fixes a build issue and does some cleanup in
ib/sys_info.c.
- The 9 patch series "Implement mul_u64_u64_div_u64_roundup()" from
David Laight enhances the 64-bit math code on behalf of a PWM driver and
beefs up the test module for these library functions.
- The 2 patch series "scripts/gdb/symbols: make BPF debug info available
to GDB" from Ilya Leoshkevich makes BPF symbol names, sizes, and line
numbers available to the GDB debugger.
- The 4 patch series "Enable hung_task and lockup cases to dump system
info on demand" from Feng Tang adds a sysctl which can be used to cause
additional info dumping when the hung-task and lockup detectors fire.
- The 6 patch series "lib/base64: add generic encoder/decoder, migrate
users" from Kuan-Wei Chiu adds a general base64 encoder/decoder to lib/
and migrates several users away from their private implementations.
- The 2 patch series "rbree: inline rb_first() and rb_last()" from Eric
Dumazet makes TCP a little faster.
- The 9 patch series "liveupdate: Rework KHO for in-kernel users" from
Pasha Tatashin reworks the KEXEC Handover interfaces in preparation for
Live Update Orchestrator (LUO), and possibly for other future clients.
- The 13 patch series "kho: simplify state machine and enable dynamic
updates" from Pasha Tatashin increases the flexibility of KEXEC
Handover. Also preparation for LUO.
- The 18 patch series "Live Update Orchestrator" from Pasha Tatashin is
a major new feature targeted at cloud environments. Quoting the [0/N]:
This series introduces the Live Update Orchestrator, a kernel subsystem
designed to facilitate live kernel updates using a kexec-based reboot.
This capability is critical for cloud environments, allowing hypervisors
to be updated with minimal downtime for running virtual machines. LUO
achieves this by preserving the state of selected resources, such as
memory, devices and their dependencies, across the kernel transition.
As a key feature, this series includes support for preserving memfd file
descriptors, which allows critical in-memory data, such as guest RAM or
any other large memory region, to be maintained in RAM across the kexec
reboot.
Mike Rappaport merits a mention here, for his extensive review and
testing work.
- The 3 patch series "kexec: reorganize kexec and kdump sysfs" from
Sourabh Jain moves the kexec and kdump sysfs entries from /sys/kernel/
to /sys/kernel/kexec/ and adds back-compatibility symlinks which can
hopefully be removed one day.
- The 2 patch series "kho: fixes for vmalloc restoration" from Mike
Rapoport fixes a BUG which was being hit during KHO restoration of
vmalloc() regions.
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
iHUEABYKAB0WIQTTMBEPP41GrTpTJgfdBJ7gKXxAjgUCaTSAkQAKCRDdBJ7gKXxA
jrkiAP9QKfsRv46XZaM5raScjY1ayjP+gqb2rgt6BQ/gZvb2+wD/cPAYOR6BiX52
n0pVpQmG5P/KyOmpLztn96ejL4heKwQ=
=JY96
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-12-06-11-14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:
- "panic: sys_info: Refactor and fix a potential issue" (Andy Shevchenko)
fixes a build issue and does some cleanup in ib/sys_info.c
- "Implement mul_u64_u64_div_u64_roundup()" (David Laight)
enhances the 64-bit math code on behalf of a PWM driver and beefs up
the test module for these library functions
- "scripts/gdb/symbols: make BPF debug info available to GDB" (Ilya Leoshkevich)
makes BPF symbol names, sizes, and line numbers available to the GDB
debugger
- "Enable hung_task and lockup cases to dump system info on demand" (Feng Tang)
adds a sysctl which can be used to cause additional info dumping when
the hung-task and lockup detectors fire
- "lib/base64: add generic encoder/decoder, migrate users" (Kuan-Wei Chiu)
adds a general base64 encoder/decoder to lib/ and migrates several
users away from their private implementations
- "rbree: inline rb_first() and rb_last()" (Eric Dumazet)
makes TCP a little faster
- "liveupdate: Rework KHO for in-kernel users" (Pasha Tatashin)
reworks the KEXEC Handover interfaces in preparation for Live Update
Orchestrator (LUO), and possibly for other future clients
- "kho: simplify state machine and enable dynamic updates" (Pasha Tatashin)
increases the flexibility of KEXEC Handover. Also preparation for LUO
- "Live Update Orchestrator" (Pasha Tatashin)
is a major new feature targeted at cloud environments. Quoting the
cover letter:
This series introduces the Live Update Orchestrator, a kernel
subsystem designed to facilitate live kernel updates using a
kexec-based reboot. This capability is critical for cloud
environments, allowing hypervisors to be updated with minimal
downtime for running virtual machines. LUO achieves this by
preserving the state of selected resources, such as memory,
devices and their dependencies, across the kernel transition.
As a key feature, this series includes support for preserving
memfd file descriptors, which allows critical in-memory data, such
as guest RAM or any other large memory region, to be maintained in
RAM across the kexec reboot.
Mike Rappaport merits a mention here, for his extensive review and
testing work.
- "kexec: reorganize kexec and kdump sysfs" (Sourabh Jain)
moves the kexec and kdump sysfs entries from /sys/kernel/ to
/sys/kernel/kexec/ and adds back-compatibility symlinks which can
hopefully be removed one day
- "kho: fixes for vmalloc restoration" (Mike Rapoport)
fixes a BUG which was being hit during KHO restoration of vmalloc()
regions
* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-12-06-11-14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (139 commits)
calibrate: update header inclusion
Reinstate "resource: avoid unnecessary lookups in find_next_iomem_res()"
vmcoreinfo: track and log recoverable hardware errors
kho: fix restoring of contiguous ranges of order-0 pages
kho: kho_restore_vmalloc: fix initialization of pages array
MAINTAINERS: TPM DEVICE DRIVER: update the W-tag
init: replace simple_strtoul with kstrtoul to improve lpj_setup
KHO: fix boot failure due to kmemleak access to non-PRESENT pages
Documentation/ABI: new kexec and kdump sysfs interface
Documentation/ABI: mark old kexec sysfs deprecated
kexec: move sysfs entries to /sys/kernel/kexec
test_kho: always print restore status
kho: free chunks using free_page() instead of kfree()
selftests/liveupdate: add kexec test for multiple and empty sessions
selftests/liveupdate: add simple kexec-based selftest for LUO
selftests/liveupdate: add userspace API selftests
docs: add documentation for memfd preservation via LUO
mm: memfd_luo: allow preserving memfd
liveupdate: luo_file: add private argument to store runtime state
mm: shmem: export some functions to internal.h
...
Adds documentation for the new check PLACEHOLDER_USE in checkpatch.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250917173725.22547-3-work@onurozkan.dev
Signed-off-by: Onur Özkan <work@onurozkan.dev>
Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Cc: Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@gmail.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Networking no longer has their own comment style, and checkpatch no
longer checks for this.
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>
Suggested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <20251017203719.1554224-2-briannorris@chromium.org>
Ironically, the block style comments in the checkpatch documentation are
not aligned properly. Correct that.
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <20251017203719.1554224-1-briannorris@chromium.org>
Historically, the RGMII PHY modes specified in Device Trees have been
used inconsistently, often referring to the usage of delays on the PHY
side rather than describing the board; many drivers still implement this
incorrectly.
Require a comment in Devices Trees using these modes (usually mentioning
that the delay is realized on the PCB), so we can avoid adding more
incorrect uses (or will at least notice which drivers still need to be
fixed).
Suggested-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Signed-off-by: Matthias Schiffer <matthias.schiffer@ew.tq-group.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/bc112b8aa510cf9df9ab33178d122f234d0aebf7.1750756583.git.matthias.schiffer@ew.tq-group.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Commit f77bf01425 ("kbuild: introduce ccflags-y, asflags-y and
ldflags-y") deprecated these in 2007. The migration should have been
completed by now.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
checkpatch.pl checks for several things related to sleep and delay
functions. In all warnings the outdated documentation is referenced. Also
in checkpatch kernel documentation the outdated documentation is
referenced.
Replace the links to the outdated documentation with links to the function
description.
Note: Update of the outdated checkpatch checks is done in a second step.
Signed-off-by: Anna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241014-devel-anna-maria-b4-timers-flseep-v3-10-dc8b907cb62f@linutronix.de
If function-like macros do not utilize a parameter, it might result in a
build warning. In our coding style guidelines, we advocate for utilizing
static inline functions to replace such macros. This patch verifies
compliance with the new rule.
For a macro such as the one below,
#define test(a) do { } while (0)
The test result is as follows.
WARNING: Argument 'a' is not used in function-like macro
#21: FILE: mm/init-mm.c:20:
+#define test(a) do { } while (0)
total: 0 errors, 1 warnings, 8 lines checked
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240507032757.146386-3-21cnbao@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Xining Xu <mac.xxn@outlook.com>
Tested-by: Barry Song <v-songbaohua@oppo.com>
Signed-off-by: Barry Song <v-songbaohua@oppo.com>
Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Cc: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@loongson.cn>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Cc: Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@gmail.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Cc: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>
Cc: Jeff Johnson <quic_jjohnson@quicinc.com>
Cc: Charlemagne Lasse <charlemagnelasse@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Add a warning for fixes tags that does not follow community conventions.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220914100255.1048460-1-niklas.soderlund@corigine.com
Signed-off-by: Niklas Söderlund <niklas.soderlund@corigine.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <simon.horman@corigine.com>
Reviewed-by: Louis Peens <louis.peens@corigine.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Schenker <philippe.schenker@toradex.com>
Acked-by: Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Add a new message type SYMBOLIC_PERMS under the 'Permissions'
subsection. Octal permission bits are easier to read and understand
instead of their symbolic macro names.
Suggested-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Utkarsh Verma <utkarshverma294@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210904082330.14864-1-utkarshverma294@gmail.com
[jc: Tweaked wording as suggested by Dwaipayan Ray]
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Add a new message type TRAILING_SEMICOLON for the macro definitions
that conclude with a semicolon.
Suggested-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Utkarsh Verma <utkarshverma294@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210904074201.13532-1-utkarshverma294@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Add a new message type SPLIT_STRING under the 'Indentation and Line
Breaks' subsection. Checkpatch documentation for the splitting of
quoted strings that appear in userspace, across multiple lines.
Suggested-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Utkarsh Verma <utkarshverma294@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210904073621.12987-1-utkarshverma294@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Add and document more checkpatch message types. About 50% of all
message types are documented now.
In addition to this:
- Create a new subsection 'Indentation and Line Breaks'.
- Rename subsection 'Comment style' to simply 'Comments'.
- Refactor some of the existing types to appropriate subsections.
Reviewed-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210614141132.6881-1-dwaipayanray1@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
While include/linux/bitops.h brings in the BIT() macro, it was moved to
include/linux/bits.h in commit 8bd9cb51da ("locking/atomics, asm-generic:
Move some macros from <linux/bitops.h> to a new <linux/bits.h> file").
Since that commit BIT() has moved again into include/vdso/bits.h via
commit 3945ff37d2 ("linux/bits.h: Extract common header for vDSO").
I think the move to the vDSO header can be considered an implementation
detail, so for now update the checkpatch documentation to recommend use
of include/linux/bits.h.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Jeffery <andrew@aj.id.au>
Acked-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210520093949.511471-1-andrew@aj.id.au
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
- Document a couple of more checkpatch message types.
- Add a blank line before all `See:` lines to improve the
rst output.
- Create a new subsection `Permissions` and move a few types
to it.
Signed-off-by: Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210515132348.19082-1-dwaipayanray1@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
All the error message types now have a verbose description.
Also there are two new groups of message types:
- Macros, Attributes and Symbols
- Functions and Variables
Rearrange the message types to fit these new groups as needed.
Signed-off-by: Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210322082139.33822-1-dwaipayanray1@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Add documentation for kernel script checkpatch.pl.
This documentation is also parsed by checkpatch to
enable a verbose mode.
The checkpatch message types are grouped by usage. Under
each group the types are described briefly. 34 of such
types are documented.
Signed-off-by: Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210226093827.12700-2-dwaipayanray1@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
