Enable to capture stderr via a DEBUG_FILE variable passed to
coccicheck. You can now do:
$ rm -f cocci.err
$ export COCCI=scripts/coccinelle/free/kfree.cocci
$ make coccicheck MODE=report DEBUG_FILE=cocci.err
...
$ cat cocci.err
This will be come more useful once we add support to
use more things which would go into stderr, such as
profiling. That will be done separately in another
commit.
Expand Documentation/coccinelle.txt with details.
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Nicolas Palix <nicolas.palix@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
Coccinelle has had parmap support since 1.0.2, this means
it supports --jobs, enabling built-in multithreaded functionality,
instead of needing one to script it out. Just look for --jobs
in the help output to determine if this is supported and use it
only if your number of processors detected is > 1.
If parmap is enabled also enable the load balancing to be dynamic, so
that if a thread finishes early we keep feeding it.
stderr is currently sent to /dev/null, addressing a way to capture
that will be addressed next.
If --jobs is not supported we fallback to the old mechanism.
We expect to deprecate the old mechanism as soon as we can get
confirmation all users are ready.
While at it propagate back into the shell script any coccinelle error
code. When used in serialized mode where all cocci files are run this
also stops processing if an error has occured. This lets us handle some
errors in coccinelle cocci files and if they bail out we should inspect
the errors. This will be more useful later to help annotate coccinelle
version dependency requirements. This will let you run only SmPL files
that your system supports.
Extend Documentation/coccinelle.txt as well.
As a small example, prior to this change, on an 8-core system:
Before:
$ export COCCI=scripts/coccinelle/free/kfree.cocci
$ time make coccicheck MODE=report
...
real 29m14.912s
user 103m1.796s
sys 0m4.464s
After:
real 16m22.435s
user 128m30.060s
sys 0m2.712s
v4:
o expand Documentation/coccinelle.txt to reflect parmap support info
o update commit log to reflect what we actually do now with stderr
o split out DEBUG_FILE use into another patch
o detect number of CPUs and if its 1 then skip parmap support,
note that if you still support parmap, but have 1 CPU you will
also go through the new branches, so the old complex multithreaded process
is skipped as well.
v3:
o move USE_JOBS to avoid being overriden
v2:
o redirect coccinelle stderr to /dev/null by default and
only if DEBUG_FILE is used do we pass it to a file
o fix typo of paramap/parmap
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Nicolas Palix <nicolas.palix@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
SPFLAGS is set early, it means that any heuristics done on
coccicheck cannot be overridden currently. Move SPFLAGS
after OPTIONS and set this at the end. This lets you override
any heuristics as coccinelle treats conflicts by only listening
to the last option that makes sense.
v3: this patch was added in the v3 series
v4: Update Documentation/coccinelle.txt explaining how
SPFLAGS works as well.
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Nicolas Palix <nicolas.palix@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
The naming convention of options has changed one year ago.
The options have been recently updated in the cocci file
and in scripts/coccicheck. This patch also adds this information
in the documentation.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Palix <nicolas.palix@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
- The new default mode is 'report'.
- The available modes are detailed a bit more.
- Some information about the use of spatch options are
also given concerning the use of indexing tools.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Palix <nicolas.palix@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
This adds parallelism by default to the "coccicheck" target using
spatch's "-max" and "-index" arguments.
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Palix <nicolas.palix@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
The SPFLAGS variable allows to pass additional options
to spatch, e.g. -use_glimpse.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Palix <nicolas.palix@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Do not run with verbosity on/off depending on the ONLINE variable,
which gets set with C=1 or C=2, but allow the user to set the
verbosity using kernel default make V= paramemter.
Verbosity is off by default now.
Signed-off-by: Bernd Schubert <bernd.schubert@itwm.fraunhofer.de>
CC: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr>
Acked-by: Nicolas Palix <nicolas.palix@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Adding documentation for the new M= option which limits Coccinelle
to a specific set of directories.
Signed-off-by: Greg Dietsche <Gregory.Dietsche@cuw.edu>
Acked-by: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
For doubleinit.cocci, Coccinelle 0.2.4 requires a comma after ... in a
field list. Coccinelle also now behaves gracefully when a definition is
provided for a virtual that doesn't exist, so there is no need for the
semantic patch code to check for this case.
Updated the documentation to reflect the fact that the best results will
now be obtained with Coccinelle version 0.2.4 or later.
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
A file used as example has been moved elsewhere.
Update the documentation accordingly
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Palix <npalix.work@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
- Add information about use of the C={1,2} make flag
- Add a description of the new chain mode mechanism
- Add a link to the wiki
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Palix <npalix.work@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
10.04 is Lucid, not Karmic.
Signed-off-by: Kulikov Vasiliy <segooon@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Nicolas Palix <npalix@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
The purpose of this file is to document how to use Coccinelle and its
spatch tool to check the Linux kernel.
It gives information on where and how to retrieve Coccinelle, and how
to use it with the Coccinelle scripts integrated in the Linux kernel.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Palix <npalix@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Luis R. Rodriguez