linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/4] checkpatch: remove ACCESS

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Message-ID: <1511779800.32426.35.camel@perches.com>
Date:   Mon, 27 Nov 2017 02:50:00 -0800
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        mingo@...hat.com
Cc:     acme@...hat.com, apw@...onical.com, paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
        peterz@...radead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] checkpatch: remove ACCESS_ONCE() warning

On Mon, 2017-11-27 at 10:38 +0000, Mark Rutland wrote:
> Now that ACCESS_ONCE() has been excised from the kernel, any uses will
> result in a build error, and we no longer need to whine about it in
> checkpatch.
> 
> This patch removes the newly redundant warning.

Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>

Normally, I send checkpatch patches via Andrew Morton,
but this could be merged this directly.

> Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>
> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
> ---
>  scripts/checkpatch.pl | 22 ----------------------
>  1 file changed, 22 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> index 95cda3ecc66b..95c08493b78b 100755
> --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> @@ -6233,28 +6233,6 @@ sub process {
>  			}
>  		}
>  
> -# whine about ACCESS_ONCE
> -		if ($^V && $^V ge 5.10.0 &&
> -		    $line =~ /\bACCESS_ONCE\s*$balanced_parens\s*(=(?!=))?\s*($FuncArg)?/) {
> -			my $par = $1;
> -			my $eq = $2;
> -			my $fun = $3;
> -			$par =~ s/^\(\s*(.*)\s*\)$/$1/;
> -			if (defined($eq)) {
> -				if (WARN("PREFER_WRITE_ONCE",
> -					 "Prefer WRITE_ONCE(<FOO>, <BAR>) over ACCESS_ONCE(<FOO>) = <BAR>\n" . $herecurr) &&
> -				    $fix) {
> -					$fixed[$fixlinenr] =~ s/\bACCESS_ONCE\s*\(\s*\Q$par\E\s*\)\s*$eq\s*\Q$fun\E/WRITE_ONCE($par, $fun)/;
> -				}
> -			} else {
> -				if (WARN("PREFER_READ_ONCE",
> -					 "Prefer READ_ONCE(<FOO>) over ACCESS_ONCE(<FOO>)\n" . $herecurr) &&
> -				    $fix) {
> -					$fixed[$fixlinenr] =~ s/\bACCESS_ONCE\s*\(\s*\Q$par\E\s*\)/READ_ONCE($par)/;
> -				}
> -			}
> -		}
> -
>  # check for mutex_trylock_recursive usage
>  		if ($line =~ /mutex_trylock_recursive/) {
>  			ERROR("LOCKING",