linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] locking/atomics: Check atomic-arch-fallback.h too

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Date:   Fri, 2 Oct 2020 14:00:08 +0100
From:   Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
To:     Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:     Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>, Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] locking/atomics: Check atomic-arch-fallback.h too

On Thu, Oct 01, 2020 at 10:20:28PM +0200, Paul Bolle wrote:
> The sha1sum of include/linux/atomic-arch-fallback.h isn't checked by
> check-atomics.sh. It's not clear why it's skipped so let's check it too.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>

This was an oversight; Peter and I forgot to add this when Peter added
the arch fallbacks in commit:

  37f8173dd84936ea ("locking/atomics: Flip fallbacks and instrumentation")

... for which we could arguably add a fixes tag.

Either way:

Reviewed-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>

Peter, I assume you'll pick this up (and also that the hash is
up-to-date as it should be).

> ---
> It seems it never has been checked. So this does cast some doubt about
> the usefulness of these tests. But I'm clueless about this atomic stuff
> so what do I know?

The tests have been useful to ensure people fixed up the scripts when
altering other files, so I think it makes sense to keep this even if we
did miss one file recently.

Mark.

> 
>  scripts/atomic/check-atomics.sh | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/scripts/atomic/check-atomics.sh b/scripts/atomic/check-atomics.sh
> index 8378c63a1e09..82748d42ecc5 100755
> --- a/scripts/atomic/check-atomics.sh
> +++ b/scripts/atomic/check-atomics.sh
> @@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ fi
>  cat <<EOF |
>  asm-generic/atomic-instrumented.h
>  asm-generic/atomic-long.h
> +linux/atomic-arch-fallback.h
>  linux/atomic-fallback.h
>  EOF
>  while read header; do
> -- 
> 2.26.2
>