Re: [PATCH 3/3] selftests: Add printf attribute to ksefltest prints

From: Maciej Wieczór-Retman
Date: Fri Aug 25 2023 - 05:07:41 EST


On 2023-08-25 at 11:28:17 +0300, Ilpo Järvinen wrote:
>On Fri, 25 Aug 2023, Maciej Wieczór-Retman wrote:
>> On 2023-08-24 at 16:10:12 +0300, Ilpo Järvinen wrote:
>> >On Thu, 24 Aug 2023, Wieczor-Retman, Maciej wrote:
>> >
>> >> Kselftest header defines multiple variadic function that use printf
>> >> along with other logic
>> >>
>> >> There is no format checking for the variadic functions that use
>> >> printing inside kselftest.h. Because of this the compiler won't
>> >> be able to catch instances of mismatched print formats and debugging
>> >> tests might be more difficult
>> >>
>> >> Add the common __printf attribute macro to kselftest.h
>> >>
>> >> Add __printf attribute to every function using formatted printing with
>> >> variadic arguments
>> >
>> >Please add . to terminate the sentences.
>>
>> Thanks, I'll fix it in the next version
>>
>> >The patch looks fine:
>> >Reviewed-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> >
>> >...However, there are formatting errors it found yet to fix.
>>
>> I believe you mean cache.c#L297.
>>
>> I think I saw you're preparing some patches that remove the line that
>> reports the formatting error so I chose to not correct here.
>>
>> Please let me know if I still should change it or would that be
>> redundant.
>
>There are other selftests besides resctrl which had a few warnings.
>
>Making the selftests to rebuild though might be a bit tricky (you won't
>see the warnings otherwise), I don't know the command needed to clean
>selftests but I guess one can always force their timestamps to force
>recompile with:
> git ls-files tools/testing/selftests | xargs touch

Okay, I think I counted 13 more caused by the __printf().
I just ran:
$ make -C tools/testing/selftests
and to rerun it later:
$ make -C tools/testing/selftests clean

But do you think all these fixes fit into this series?
Is so, should I put them in a separate patch or just append to this one?

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Kind regards
Maciej Wieczór-Retman