Hi Greg, Add a new feature at get_abi.pl to optionally check for existing symbols under /sys that won't match a "What:" inside Documentation/ABI. Such feature is very useful to detect missing documentation for ABI. This series brings a major speedup, plus it fixes a few border cases when matching regexes that end with a ".*" or \d+. patch 1 changes get_abi.pl logic to handle multiple What: lines, in order to make the script more robust; patch 2 adds the basic logic. It runs really quicky (up to 2 seconds), but it doesn't use sysfs softlinks. Patch 3 adds support for parsing softlinks. It makes the script a lot slower, making it take a couple of minutes to process the entire sysfs files. It could be optimized in the future by using a graph, but, for now, let's keep it simple. Patch 4 adds an optional parameter to allow filtering the results using a regex given by the user. When this parameter is used (which should be the normal usecase), it will only try to find softlinks if the sysfs node matches a regex. Patch 5 improves the report by avoiding it to ignore What: that ends with a wildcard. Patch 6 is a minor speedup. On a Dell Precision 5820, after patch 6, results are: $ time ./scripts/get_abi.pl undefined |sort >undefined && cat undefined| perl -ne 'print "$1\n" if (m#.*/(\S+) not found#)'|sort|uniq -c|sort -nr >undefined_symbols; wc -l undefined; wc -l undefined_symbols real 2m35.563s user 2m34.346s sys 0m1.220s 7595 undefined 896 undefined_symbols Patch 7 makes a *huge* speedup: it basically switches a linear O(n^3) search for links by a logic which handle symlinks using BFS. It also addresses a border case that was making 'msi-irqs/\d+' regex to be misparsed. After patch 7, it is 11 times faster: $ time ./scripts/get_abi.pl undefined |sort >undefined && cat undefined| perl -ne 'print "$1\n" if (m#.*/(\S+) not found#)'|sort|uniq -c|sort -nr >undefined_symbols; wc -l undefined; wc -l undefined_symbols real 0m14.137s user 0m12.795s sys 0m1.348s 7030 undefined 794 undefined_symbols (the difference on the number of undefined symbols are due to the fix for it to properly handle 'msi-irqs/\d+' regex) - While this series is independent from Documentation/ABI changes, it works best when applied from this tree, which also contain ABI fixes and a couple of additions of frequent missed symbols on my machine: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/devel.git/log/?h=get_undefined_abi_v3 - v3: - Fixed parse issues with 'msi-irqs/\d+' regex; - Added a BFS graph logic to solve symlinks at sysfs; v2: - multiple What: for the same description are now properly handled; - some special cases are now better handled; - some bugs got fixed. The full series, with the ABI changes and some ABI improvements can be found at: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/devel.git/commit/?h=get_undefined&id=1838d8fb149170f6c19feda0645d6c3157f46f4f Mauro Carvalho Chehab (7): scripts: get_abi.pl: Better handle multiple What parameters scripts: get_abi.pl: Check for missing symbols at the ABI specs scripts: get_abi.pl: detect softlinks scripts: get_abi.pl: add an option to filter undefined results scripts: get_abi.pl: don't skip what that ends with wildcards scripts: get_abi.pl: Ignore fs/cgroup sysfs nodes earlier scripts: get_abi.pl: add a graph to speedup the undefined algorithm scripts/get_abi.pl | 327 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 320 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) -- 2.31.1