From 77b8c0a8e47484e205b01dfedcd224770aa9d800 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2019 15:26:59 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] 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>
---
scripts/checkpatch.pl | 13 +++++++++++--
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 377f373db6c00..93e84c9504a15 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/) {
--
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