checkpatch: Add additional attribute #defines
authorJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:23:16 +0000 (14:23 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 26 Oct 2010 23:52:20 +0000 (16:52 -0700)
On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 12:35 -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> I just got this from a patch I merged..
>
> ERROR: need consistent spacing around '*' (ctx:WxV)
> #121: FILE: arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/pcc-cpufreq.c:113:
> +static struct pcc_cpu __percpu *pcc_cpu_info;
>                                 ^
> which doesn't seem right.

Perhaps these need to be added to checkpatch.

[apw@canonical.com: added tests]
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
scripts/checkpatch.pl

index 93fa145..c151c9e 100755 (executable)
@@ -152,6 +152,20 @@ our $Sparse        = qr{
 # We need \b after 'init' otherwise 'initconst' will cause a false positive in a check
 our $Attribute = qr{
                        const|
+                       __percpu|
+                       __nocast|
+                       __safe|
+                       __bitwise__|
+                       __packed__|
+                       __packed2__|
+                       __naked|
+                       __maybe_unused|
+                       __always_unused|
+                       __noreturn|
+                       __used|
+                       __cold|
+                       __noclone|
+                       __deprecated|
                        __read_mostly|
                        __kprobes|
                        __(?:mem|cpu|dev|)(?:initdata|initconst|init\b)|