On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 10:31:32PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> Lastly __alloc_size should probably be added to checkpatch
>
> Maybe:
> ---
> scripts/checkpatch.pl | 3 ++-
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> index 161ce7fe5d1e5..1a166b5cf3447 100755
> --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> @@ -489,7 +489,8 @@ our $Attribute = qr{
> ____cacheline_aligned|
> ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp|
> ____cacheline_internodealigned_in_smp|
> - __weak
> + __weak|
> + __alloc_size\s*\(\s*\d+\s*(?:,\s*d+\s*){0,5}\)
Should probably be added to kernel-doc as well. Any other awful regexes
that need to be changed to understand it? And can we commonise the
regexes that do exist into a perl helper library?
