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authorJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>2019-01-03 15:26:59 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2019-01-04 13:13:46 -0800
commit77b8c0a8e47484e205b01dfedcd224770aa9d800 (patch)
tree6c330016a11944d5dd5f9f0dd5b5e7651e1b35ae
parent05391772a72d49c37e6e4cb8e871be57beb66155 (diff)
checkpatch: warn on const char foo[] = "bar"; declarations
These declarations should generally be static const to avoid poor compilation and runtime performance where compilers tend to initialize the const declaration for every call instead of using .rodata for the string. Miscellanea: - Convert spaces to tabs for indentation in 2 adjacent checks Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/10ea5f4b087dc911e41e187a4a2b5e79c7529aa3.camel@perches.com Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
-rwxr-xr-xscripts/checkpatch.pl13
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 377f373db6c0..93e84c9504a1 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -3890,14 +3890,23 @@ sub process {
WARN("STATIC_CONST_CHAR_ARRAY",
"static const char * array should probably be static const char * const\n" .
$herecurr);
- }
+ }
+
+# check for initialized const char arrays that should be static const
+ if ($line =~ /^\+\s*const\s+(char|unsigned\s+char|_*u8|(?:[us]_)?int8_t)\s+\w+\s*\[\s*(?:\w+\s*)?\]\s*=\s*"/) {
+ if (WARN("STATIC_CONST_CHAR_ARRAY",
+ "const array should probably be static const\n" . $herecurr) &&
+ $fix) {
+ $fixed[$fixlinenr] =~ s/(^.\s*)const\b/${1}static const/;
+ }
+ }
# check for static char foo[] = "bar" declarations.
if ($line =~ /\bstatic\s+char\s+(\w+)\s*\[\s*\]\s*=\s*"/) {
WARN("STATIC_CONST_CHAR_ARRAY",
"static char array declaration should probably be static const char\n" .
$herecurr);
- }
+ }
# check for const <foo> const where <foo> is not a pointer or array type
if ($sline =~ /\bconst\s+($BasicType)\s+const\b/) {