linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] scripts/tags.sh: allow only selected directories to be indexed

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Date:   Sat, 10 Dec 2022 12:31:41 -0800
From:   Vipin Sharma <vipinsh@...gle.com>
To:     Paulo Miguel Almeida <paulo.miguel.almeida.rodenas@...il.com>
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Cristian Ciocaltea <cristian.ciocaltea@...labora.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scripts/tags.sh: allow only selected directories to be indexed

On Fri, Dec 9, 2022 at 11:18 AM Paulo Miguel Almeida
<paulo.miguel.almeida.rodenas@...il.com> wrote:
>
> It's common for drivers that share same physical components to also
> duplicate source code (or at least portions of it). A good example is
> both drivers/gpu/drm/amdgpu/* and drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/* have a header
> file called atombios.h.
>
> While their contents aren't the same, a lot of their structs have
> the exact same names which makes navigating through the code base a bit
> messy as cscope will show up 'references' across drivers which aren't
> exactly correct.
>
> This patch makes it possible for the devs to specify which folders
> they want to include as part of the find_other_sources function if a
> makefile variable OTHERSRCDIRS is present, otherwise the original
> behaviour is kept.
>
> Example:
>         make ARCH=x86 OTHERSRCDIRS=drivers/gpu/drm/radeon,tools cscope
>

It is better to make the opposite option i.e. ignore directories. By
default, cscope is all inclusive and it is more beneficial to have
more code indexed than less. Default indexed
directories will be different with and without OTHERSRCDIRS.

For example,

make ARCH=x86 cscope

# This includes all of the kernel code except non-x86 arch code.

make ARCH=x86 OTHERSRCSDIRS=drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/tools,tools cscope

# This includes only arch/x86, include/, tools/ and
driver/gpu/drm/radeon/tools. It removes kernel/, block/, lib/,
crypto/, virt/, etc. These are important kernel source code
directories.

My vote is to make something like:
make ARCH=x86 IGNOREDIRS=drivers/gpu/drm/amdgpu cscope

Parse IGNOREDIRS in the scripts/tags.sh and append to $ignore variable.

Also you should write this option in /Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.rst
similar to ALLSOURCE_ARCHS

Thanks


> Signed-off-by: Paulo Miguel Almeida <paulo.miguel.almeida.rodenas@...il.com>
> ---
>  scripts/tags.sh | 13 +++++++++----
>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/scripts/tags.sh b/scripts/tags.sh
> index e137cf15aae9..958c07c4ac4a 100755
> --- a/scripts/tags.sh
> +++ b/scripts/tags.sh
> @@ -59,12 +59,17 @@ find_include_sources()
>  }
>
>  # find sources in rest of tree
> -# we could benefit from a list of dirs to search in here
>  find_other_sources()
>  {
> -       find ${tree}* $ignore \
> -            \( -path ${tree}include -o -path ${tree}arch -o -name '.tmp_*' \) -prune -o \
> -              -name "$1" -not -type l -print;
> +       find_def_params="-name $1 -not -type l -print"
> +       if [ -n "${OTHERSRCDIRS}" ]; then
> +               exp_src_dirs=$(sed 's/,/ /g' <<< ${OTHERSRCDIRS})
> +               find ${exp_src_dirs} ${ignore} ${find_def_params};
> +       else
> +               find ${tree}* ${ignore} \
> +                    \( -path ${tree}include -o -path ${tree}arch -o -name '.tmp_*' \) \
> +                    -prune -o ${find_def_params};
> +       fi
>  }
>
>  find_sources()
> --
> 2.38.1
>