On Tue, 2021-02-09 at 09:00 -0800, Song Liu wrote: > BPF programs explicitly initialise global variables to 0 to make sure > clang (v10 or older) do not put the variables in the common section. > Skip "initialise globals to 0" check for BPF programs to elimiate error > messages like: > > ERROR: do not initialise globals to 0 > #19: FILE: samples/bpf/tracex1_kern.c:21: > > Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@xxxxxx> > > --- > Changes v1 => v2: > 1. Add function exclude_global_initialisers() to keep the code clean. thanks. trivia and a question: > diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl [] > @@ -2428,6 +2428,15 @@ sub get_raw_comment { > return $comment; > } > > +sub exclude_global_initialisers { > + my ($realfile) = @_; > + > + # Do not check for BPF programs (tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/*.c, samples/bpf/*_kern.c, *.bpf.c). > + return $realfile =~ /^tools\/testing\/selftests\/bpf\/progs\/.*\.c/ || > + $realfile =~ /^samples\/bpf\/.*_kern.c/ || The checkpatch convention commonly used for $realfile comparisons to file patterns with directory paths is m@...@ return $realfile =~ m@^tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/.*\.c@ || $realfile =~ m@^samples/bpf/.*_kern\.c@ || > + $realfile =~ /.bpf.c$/; And lastly, is this pattern meant to escape the periods? I presume so, but if not, the leading period isn't useful. Maybe: $realfile =~ m@/bpf/.*\.bpf\.c$@; $ git ls-files | grep "\.bpf\.c$" kernel/bpf/preload/iterators/iterators.bpf.c tools/bpf/bpftool/skeleton/pid_iter.bpf.c tools/bpf/bpftool/skeleton/profiler.bpf.c tools/bpf/runqslower/runqslower.bpf.c vs $ git ls-files | grep ".bpf.c$" drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_bpf.c drivers/net/netdevsim/bpf.c kernel/bpf/preload/iterators/iterators.bpf.c lib/test_bpf.c net/core/lwt_bpf.c net/ipv4/tcp_bpf.c net/ipv4/udp_bpf.c net/netfilter/xt_bpf.c net/sched/act_bpf.c net/sched/cls_bpf.c samples/bpf/test_lwt_bpf.c tools/bpf/bpftool/skeleton/pid_iter.bpf.c tools/bpf/bpftool/skeleton/profiler.bpf.c tools/bpf/runqslower/runqslower.bpf.c tools/build/feature/test-bpf.c tools/build/feature/test-libbpf.c tools/lib/bpf/bpf.c tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c tools/perf/tests/bpf.c tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/fexit_bpf2bpf.c tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/xdp_bpf2bpf.c tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/fexit_bpf2bpf.c tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/test_xdp_bpf2bpf.c tools/testing/selftests/net/reuseport_bpf.c tools/testing/selftests/seccomp/seccomp_bpf.c