linux-kernel - [PATCH] checkpatch: Allow DEFINE_PER_CPU definitions to exceed line length

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Date:   Mon, 16 Oct 2017 09:12:00 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>, daniel.lezcano@...aro.org,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     marc.zyngier@....com, tglx@...utronix.de,
        ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] checkpatch: Allow DEFINE_PER_CPU definitions to exceed line
 length

Some of the definitions are very long and can't be split
into multiple lines because ctags is limited.

Exempt these lines from the line length checks.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
---
 scripts/checkpatch.pl | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 2a8c6c3c1bdb..5fa0f5467d99 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -2900,8 +2900,9 @@ sub process {
 				 $line =~ /^\+\s*#\s*define\s+\w+\s+$String$/) {
 				$msg_type = "";
 
-			# EFI_GUID is another special case
-			} elsif ($line =~ /^\+.*\bEFI_GUID\s*\(/) {
+			# More special cases
+			} elsif ($line =~ /^\+.*\bEFI_GUID\s*\(/ ||
+				 $line =~ /^\+\s*(?:\w+)?\s*DEFINE_PER_CPU/) {
 				$msg_type = "";
 
 			# Otherwise set the alternate message types