Re: [PATCH 6/6] selftests/kvm: Replace attribute with macro

From: Andrew Jones
Date: Thu Aug 31 2023 - 10:34:02 EST


On Wed, Aug 30, 2023 at 03:40:10PM +0200, Maciej Wieczór-Retman wrote:
> On 2023-08-30 at 15:22:57 +0300, Ilpo Järvinen wrote:
> >On Mon, 28 Aug 2023, Wieczor-Retman, Maciej wrote:
> >
> >> The __printf() macro is used in many tools in the linux kernel to
> >> validate the format specifiers in functions that use printf. Some
> >> selftests use it without putting it in a macro definition and some tests
> >> import the kselftests.h header.
> >
> >"Some" and yet this only converts one? Please be more precise in the
> >wording.
>
> Okay, I'll mention them by subsystem.
>
> >> Use __printf() attribute instead of the full attribute since the macro
> >> is inside kselftests.h and the header is already imported.
> >
> >IMO, this would be enough:
> >
> >Use __printf() from kselftests.h instead of the full attribute.
>
> Fair enough, I'll change the paragraph to that.

There are two in kvm selftests. test_assert(), a few lines down, also uses
the attribute.

Thanks,
drew

>
> >Was there a reason why you didn't convert mm/pkey-helpers.h one?
>
> Sorry, must have just missed it somehow. Thank you for pointing it out.
>
> --
> Kind regards
> Maciej Wieczór-Retman