On Thu, Jul 20, 2023 at 09:38:51PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > On Thu, 2023-07-20 at 20:56 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > > > > > That works much better, thank you! I will update the patch on my > > > next rebase. > > > > As shown below. Is this what you had in mind? > [] > > commit 496aa3821b40459b107f4bbc14ca867daad21fb6 > > Author: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Date: Thu Jul 6 11:48:07 2023 -0700 > > > > checkpatch: Complain about unexpected uses of RCU Tasks Trace > > > > RCU Tasks Trace is quite specialized, having been created specifically > > for sleepable BPF programs. Because it allows general blocking within > > readers, any new use of RCU Tasks Trace must take current use cases into > > account. Therefore, update checkpatch.pl to complain about use of any of > > the RCU Tasks Trace API members outside of BPF and outside of RCU itself. > [] > > diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl > [] > > @@ -7457,6 +7457,30 @@ sub process { > > } > > } > > > > +# Complain about RCU Tasks Trace used outside of BPF (and of course, RCU). > > + our $rcu_trace_funcs = qr{(?x: > > + rcu_read_lock_trace | > > + rcu_read_lock_trace_held | > > + rcu_read_unlock_trace | > > + call_rcu_tasks_trace | > > + synchronize_rcu_tasks_trace | > > + rcu_barrier_tasks_trace | > > + rcu_request_urgent_qs_task > > + )}; > > + our $rcu_trace_paths = qr{(?x: > > + kernel/bpf/ | > > + include/linux/bpf | > > + net/bpf/ | > > + kernel/rcu/ | > > + include/linux/rcu > > + )}; > > + if ($line =~ /\b$rcu_trace_funcs\s*\(/) { > > + if ($realfile !~ m@^$rcu_trace_paths@) { > > + WARN("RCU_TASKS_TRACE", > > + "use of RCU tasks trace is incorrect outside BPF or core RCU code\n" . $herecurr); > > Exactly yes. > > (though I still suggest a capture group to show the function like below) > > if ($line =~ /\b($rcu_trace_funcs)\s*\(/ && > $realfile !~ m{^$rcu_trace_paths}) { > WARN("RCU_TASKS_TRACE", > "use of RCU task trace '$1' is incorrect outside BPF or core RCU code\n" . $herecurr); > } That does seem to work! I will fold this change in on my next rebase. Thanx, Paul