linux-kernel - Re: [RFC 3/6] objtool: arm64: Adapt the stack frame checks and the section analysis for the arm architecture

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Date:   Tue, 9 Apr 2019 17:24:21 +0100
From:   Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:     Raphael Gault <raphael.gault@....com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        jpoimboe@...hat.com, catalin.marinas@....com, will.deacon@....com,
        julien.thierry@....com
Subject: Re: [RFC 3/6] objtool: arm64: Adapt the stack frame checks and the
 section analysis for the arm architecture

On Tue, Apr 09, 2019 at 06:12:04PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> 
> I'm just doing my initial read-through,.. however
> 
> On Tue, Apr 09, 2019 at 02:52:40PM +0100, Raphael Gault wrote:
> > +		if (!(sec->sh.sh_flags & SHF_EXECINSTR)
> > +			&& (strcmp(sec->name, ".altinstr_replacement") || !IGNORE_SHF_EXEC_FLAG))
> >  			continue;
> 
> could you please not format code like that. Operators go at the end of
> the line, and continuation should match the indentation of the opening
> paren. So the above would look like:
> 
> > +		if (!(sec->sh.sh_flags & SHF_EXECINSTR) &&
> > +		    (strcmp(sec->name, ".altinstr_replacement") || !IGNORE_SHF_EXEC_FLAG))
> >  			continue;
> 
> You appear to be doing that quit consistently, and it is against style.

Raphael, as a heads-up, ./scripts/checkpatch.pl can catch issues like
this. You can run it over a list of patches, so for a patch series you
can run:

 $ ./scripts/checkpatch.pl *.patch

... and hopefully most of the output will be reasonable.

Thanks,
Mark.