linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 6/6] selftests/kvm: Replace attribute with macro

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Message-ID: <fw6nuuhzmkp36bumrn6xuy7etxslr2iybazigaoo57iy22x2k7@nord6jkch73n>
Date:   Wed, 30 Aug 2023 15:40:10 +0200
From:   Maciej Wieczór-Retman 
        <maciej.wieczor-retman@...el.com>
To:     Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...ux.intel.com>
CC:     Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>, Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>,
        Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@...el.com>,
        <kvm@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] selftests/kvm: Replace attribute with macro

On 2023-08-30 at 15:22:57 +0300, Ilpo Järvinen wrote:
>On Mon, 28 Aug 2023, Wieczor-Retman, Maciej wrote:
>
>> The __printf() macro is used in many tools in the linux kernel to
>> validate the format specifiers in functions that use printf. Some
>> selftests use it without putting it in a macro definition and some tests
>> import the kselftests.h header.
>
>"Some" and yet this only converts one? Please be more precise in the 
>wording.

Okay, I'll mention them by subsystem.

>> Use __printf() attribute instead of the full attribute since the macro
>> is inside kselftests.h and the header is already imported.
>
>IMO, this would be enough:
>
>Use __printf() from kselftests.h instead of the full attribute.

Fair enough, I'll change the paragraph to that.

>Was there a reason why you didn't convert mm/pkey-helpers.h one?

Sorry, must have just missed it somehow. Thank you for pointing it out.

-- 
Kind regards
Maciej Wieczór-Retman