Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Add a --strict test for structs with bool member definitions

[Julia Lawall]

On Wed, 11 Apr 2018, Joe Perches wrote:

> On Thu, 2018-04-12 at 08:22 +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
> > On Wed, 11 Apr 2018, Joe Perches wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2018-04-11 at 09:29 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > > We already have some 500 bools-in-structs
> > >
> > > I got at least triple that only in include/
> > > so I expect there are at probably an order
> > > of magnitude more than 500 in the kernel.
> > >
> > > I suppose some cocci script could count the
> > > actual number of instances.  A regex can not.
> >
> > I got 12667.
>
> Could you please post the cocci script?

Sure.

julia


Command line:
spatch.opt boolinstruct.cocci -j 40 --very-quiet --no-includes --include-headers /run/shm/linux-next --use-idutils

This was tested on:

struct foo {
  bool a;
  bool b,c;
  int r;
};

struct {
  bool a;
  bool b,c;
  int r;
} x;

----------------------

@initialize:ocaml@
@@
let ctr = ref 0

@r@
identifier i,x;
position p;
@@

struct i {
  ...
  bool x@p;
  ...
}

@script:ocaml@
_p << r.p;
@@

ctr := !ctr + 1

@s@
identifier x;
position p;
@@

struct {
  ...
  bool x@p;
  ...
}

@script:ocaml@
_p << s.p;
@@

ctr := !ctr + 1

@finalize:ocaml@
ctrs << merge.ctr;
@@

ctr := 0;
List.iter (function c -> ctr := !c + !ctr) ctrs;
Printf.printf "%d\n" !ctr