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[RFC] MAINTAINERS tag for cleanup robot

Message ID 20201121165058.1644182-1-trix@redhat.com
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Series [RFC] MAINTAINERS tag for cleanup robot | expand

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Tom Rix Nov. 21, 2020, 4:50 p.m. UTC
A difficult part of automating commits is composing the subsystem
preamble in the commit log.  For the ongoing effort of a fixer producing
one or two fixes a release the use of 'treewide:' does not seem appropriate.

It would be better if the normal prefix was used.  Unfortunately normal is
not consistent across the tree.

So I am looking for comments for adding a new tag to the MAINTAINERS file

	D: Commit subsystem prefix

ex/ for FPGA DFL DRIVERS

	D: fpga: dfl:

Continuing with cleaning up clang's -Wextra-semi-stmt

A significant number of warnings are caused by function like macros with
a trailing semicolon.  For example.

#define FOO(a) a++; <-- extra, unneeded semicolon
void bar() {
	int v = 0;
	FOO(a);
} 

Clang will warn at the FOO(a); expansion location. Instead of removing
the semicolon there,  the fixer removes semicolon from the macro
definition.  After the fixer, the code will be:

#define FOO(a) a++
void bar() {
	int v = 0;
	FOO(a);
} 

The fixer review is
https://reviews.llvm.org/D91789

A run over allyesconfig for x86_64 finds 62 issues, 5 are false positives.
The false positives are caused by macros passed to other macros and by
some macro expansions that did not have an extra semicolon.

This cleans up about 1,000 of the current 10,000 -Wextra-semi-stmt
warnings in linux-next.

An update to [RFC] clang tooling cleanup
This change adds the clang-tidy-fix as a top level target and
uses it to do the cleaning.  The next iteration will do a loop of
cleaners.  This will mean breaking clang-tidy-fix out into its own
processing function 'run_fixers'.

Makefile: Add toplevel target clang-tidy-fix to makefile

Calls clang-tidy with -fix option for a set of checkers that
programatically fixes the kernel source in place, treewide.

Signed-off-by: Tom Rix <trix@redhat.com>
---
 Makefile                               |  7 ++++---
 scripts/clang-tools/run-clang-tools.py | 20 +++++++++++++++++---
 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

Comments

Matthew Wilcox Nov. 22, 2020, 2:56 p.m. UTC | #1
On Sun, Nov 22, 2020 at 06:46:46AM -0800, Tom Rix wrote:
> 
> On 11/21/20 7:23 PM, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 21, 2020 at 08:50:58AM -0800, trix@redhat.com wrote:
> >> The fixer review is
> >> https://reviews.llvm.org/D91789
> >>
> >> A run over allyesconfig for x86_64 finds 62 issues, 5 are false positives.
> >> The false positives are caused by macros passed to other macros and by
> >> some macro expansions that did not have an extra semicolon.
> >>
> >> This cleans up about 1,000 of the current 10,000 -Wextra-semi-stmt
> >> warnings in linux-next.
> > Are any of them not false-positives?  It's all very well to enable
> > stricter warnings, but if they don't fix any bugs, they're just churn.
> >
> While enabling additional warnings may be a side effect of this effort
> 
> the primary goal is to set up a cleaning robot. After that a refactoring robot.

Why do we need such a thing?  Again, it sounds like more churn.
It's really annoying when I'm working on something important that gets
derailed by pointless churn.  Churn also makes it harder to backport
patches to earlier kernels.
Tom Rix Nov. 22, 2020, 4:33 p.m. UTC | #2
On 11/21/20 9:10 AM, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Sat, 2020-11-21 at 08:50 -0800, trix@redhat.com wrote:
>> A difficult part of automating commits is composing the subsystem
>> preamble in the commit log.  For the ongoing effort of a fixer producing
>> one or two fixes a release the use of 'treewide:' does not seem appropriate.
>>
>> It would be better if the normal prefix was used.  Unfortunately normal is
>> not consistent across the tree.
>>
>> So I am looking for comments for adding a new tag to the MAINTAINERS file
>>
>> 	D: Commit subsystem prefix
>>
>> ex/ for FPGA DFL DRIVERS
>>
>> 	D: fpga: dfl:
> I'm all for it.  Good luck with the effort.  It's not completely trivial.
>
> From a decade ago:
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1289919077.28741.50.camel@Joe-Laptop/
>
> (and that thread started with extra semicolon patches too)

Reading the history, how about this.

get_mataintainer.pl outputs a single prefix, if multiple files have the same prefix it works, if they don't its an error.

Another script 'commit_one_file.sh' does the call to get_mainainter.pl to get the prefix and be called by run-clang-tools.py to get the fixer specific message.

Defer minimizing the commits by combining similar subsystems till later.

In a steady state case, this should be uncommon.


>
>> Continuing with cleaning up clang's -Wextra-semi-stmt
>> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
> []
>> @@ -1567,20 +1567,21 @@ help:
>>  	 echo  ''
>>  	@echo  'Static analysers:'
>>  	@echo  '  checkstack      - Generate a list of stack hogs'
>>  	@echo  '  versioncheck    - Sanity check on version.h usage'
>>  	@echo  '  includecheck    - Check for duplicate included header files'
>>  	@echo  '  export_report   - List the usages of all exported symbols'
>>  	@echo  '  headerdep       - Detect inclusion cycles in headers'
>>  	@echo  '  coccicheck      - Check with Coccinelle'
>>  	@echo  '  clang-analyzer  - Check with clang static analyzer'
>>  	@echo  '  clang-tidy      - Check with clang-tidy'
>> +	@echo  '  clang-tidy-fix  - Check and fix with clang-tidy'
> A pity the ordering of the code below isn't the same as the above.

Taken care thanks!

Tom
Joe Perches Nov. 22, 2020, 6:23 p.m. UTC | #3
On Sun, 2020-11-22 at 08:49 -0800, James Bottomley wrote:
> We can enforce sysfs_emit going forwards
> using tools like checkpatch

It's not really possible for checkpatch to find or warn about
sysfs uses of sprintf. checkpatch is really just a trivial
line-by-line parser and it has no concept of code intent.

It just can't warn on every use of the sprintf family.
There are just too many perfectly valid uses.

> but there's no benefit and a lot of harm to
> be done by trying to churn the entire tree

Single uses of sprintf for sysfs is not really any problem.

But likely there are still several possible overrun sprintf/snprintf
paths in sysfs.  Some of them are very obscure and unlikely to be
found by a robot as the logic for sysfs buf uses can be fairly twisty.

But provably correct conversions IMO _should_ be done and IMO churn
considerations should generally have less importance.
Jani Nikula Nov. 23, 2020, 3:52 p.m. UTC | #4
On Sat, 21 Nov 2020, James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2020-11-21 at 08:50 -0800, trix@redhat.com wrote:
>> A difficult part of automating commits is composing the subsystem
>> preamble in the commit log.  For the ongoing effort of a fixer
>> producing
>> one or two fixes a release the use of 'treewide:' does not seem
>> appropriate.
>> 
>> It would be better if the normal prefix was used.  Unfortunately
>> normal is
>> not consistent across the tree.
>> 
>> 
>> 	D: Commit subsystem prefix
>> 
>> ex/ for FPGA DFL DRIVERS
>> 
>> 	D: fpga: dfl:
>> 
>
> I've got to bet this is going to cause more issues than it solves.

Agreed.

> SCSI uses scsi: <driver>: for drivers but not every driver has a
> MAINTAINERS entry.  We use either scsi: or scsi: core: for mid layer
> things, but we're not consistent.  Block uses blk-<something>: for all
> of it's stuff but almost no <somtehing>s have a MAINTAINERS entry.  So
> the next thing you're going to cause is an explosion of suggested
> MAINTAINERs entries.

On the one hand, adoption of new MAINTAINERS entries has been really
slow. Look at B, C, or P, for instance. On the other hand, if this were
to get adopted, you'll potentially get conflicting prefixes for patches
touching multiple files. Then what?

I'm guessing a script looking at git log could come up with better
suggestions for prefixes via popularity contest than manually maintained
MAINTAINERS entries. It might not always get it right, but then human
outsiders aren't going to always get it right either.

Now you'll only need Someone(tm) to write the script. ;)

Something quick like this:

git log --since={1year} --pretty=format:%s -- <FILES> |\
	grep -v "^\(Merge\|Revert\)" |\
        sed 's/:[^:]*$//' |\
        sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head -5

already gives me results that really aren't worse than some of the
prefixes invented by drive-by contributors.

> Has anyone actually complained about treewide:?

As Joe said, I'd feel silly applying patches to drivers with that
prefix. If it gets applied by someone else higher up, literally
treewide, then no complaints.

BR,
Jani.
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Patch

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 47a8add4dd28..57756dbb767b 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1567,20 +1567,21 @@  help:
 	 echo  ''
 	@echo  'Static analysers:'
 	@echo  '  checkstack      - Generate a list of stack hogs'
 	@echo  '  versioncheck    - Sanity check on version.h usage'
 	@echo  '  includecheck    - Check for duplicate included header files'
 	@echo  '  export_report   - List the usages of all exported symbols'
 	@echo  '  headerdep       - Detect inclusion cycles in headers'
 	@echo  '  coccicheck      - Check with Coccinelle'
 	@echo  '  clang-analyzer  - Check with clang static analyzer'
 	@echo  '  clang-tidy      - Check with clang-tidy'
+	@echo  '  clang-tidy-fix  - Check and fix with clang-tidy'
 	@echo  ''
 	@echo  'Tools:'
 	@echo  '  nsdeps          - Generate missing symbol namespace dependencies'
 	@echo  ''
 	@echo  'Kernel selftest:'
 	@echo  '  kselftest         - Build and run kernel selftest'
 	@echo  '                      Build, install, and boot kernel before'
 	@echo  '                      running kselftest on it'
 	@echo  '                      Run as root for full coverage'
 	@echo  '  kselftest-all     - Build kernel selftest'
@@ -1842,30 +1843,30 @@  nsdeps: modules
 quiet_cmd_gen_compile_commands = GEN     $@
       cmd_gen_compile_commands = $(PYTHON3) $< -a $(AR) -o $@ $(filter-out $<, $(real-prereqs))
 
 $(extmod-prefix)compile_commands.json: scripts/clang-tools/gen_compile_commands.py \
 	$(if $(KBUILD_EXTMOD),,$(KBUILD_VMLINUX_OBJS) $(KBUILD_VMLINUX_LIBS)) \
 	$(if $(CONFIG_MODULES), $(MODORDER)) FORCE
 	$(call if_changed,gen_compile_commands)
 
 targets += $(extmod-prefix)compile_commands.json
 
-PHONY += clang-tidy clang-analyzer
+PHONY += clang-tidy-fix clang-tidy clang-analyzer
 
 ifdef CONFIG_CC_IS_CLANG
 quiet_cmd_clang_tools = CHECK   $<
       cmd_clang_tools = $(PYTHON3) $(srctree)/scripts/clang-tools/run-clang-tools.py $@ $<
 
-clang-tidy clang-analyzer: $(extmod-prefix)compile_commands.json
+clang-tidy-fix clang-tidy clang-analyzer: $(extmod-prefix)compile_commands.json
 	$(call cmd,clang_tools)
 else
-clang-tidy clang-analyzer:
+clang-tidy-fix clang-tidy clang-analyzer:
 	@echo "$@ requires CC=clang" >&2
 	@false
 endif
 
 # Scripts to check various things for consistency
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 PHONY += includecheck versioncheck coccicheck export_report
 
 includecheck:
diff --git a/scripts/clang-tools/run-clang-tools.py b/scripts/clang-tools/run-clang-tools.py
index fa7655c7cec0..c177ca822c56 100755
--- a/scripts/clang-tools/run-clang-tools.py
+++ b/scripts/clang-tools/run-clang-tools.py
@@ -22,43 +22,57 @@  def parse_arguments():
     Returns:
         args: Dict of parsed args
         Has keys: [path, type]
     """
     usage = """Run clang-tidy or the clang static-analyzer on a
         compilation database."""
     parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=usage)
 
     type_help = "Type of analysis to be performed"
     parser.add_argument("type",
-                        choices=["clang-tidy", "clang-analyzer"],
+                        choices=["clang-tidy-fix", "clang-tidy", "clang-analyzer"],
                         help=type_help)
     path_help = "Path to the compilation database to parse"
     parser.add_argument("path", type=str, help=path_help)
 
     return parser.parse_args()
 
 
 def init(l, a):
     global lock
     global args
     lock = l
     args = a
 
 
 def run_analysis(entry):
     # Disable all checks, then re-enable the ones we want
     checks = "-checks=-*,"
-    if args.type == "clang-tidy":
+    fix = ""
+    header_filter = ""
+    if args.type == "clang-tidy-fix":
+        checks += "linuxkernel-macro-trailing-semi"
+        #
+        # Fix this
+        # #define M(a) a++; <-- clang-tidy fixes the problem here
+        # int f() {
+        #   int v = 0;
+        #   M(v);  <-- clang reports problem here
+        #   return v;
+        # }
+        fix += "-fix"
+        header_filter += "-header-filter=.*"
+    elif args.type == "clang-tidy":
         checks += "linuxkernel-*"
     else:
         checks += "clang-analyzer-*"
-    p = subprocess.run(["clang-tidy", "-p", args.path, checks, entry["file"]],
+    p = subprocess.run(["clang-tidy", "-p", args.path, checks, header_filter, fix, entry["file"]],
                        stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
                        stderr=subprocess.STDOUT,
                        cwd=entry["directory"])
     with lock:
         sys.stderr.buffer.write(p.stdout)
 
 
 def main():
     args = parse_arguments()