From: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@inria.fr>
To: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Cc: Nicolas Palix <nicolas.palix@imag.fr>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, cocci@inria.fr,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [cocci] [PATCH v2] Revert "debugfs, coccinelle: check for obsolete DEFINE_SIMPLE_ATTRIBUTE() usage"
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2023 22:42:34 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.22.394.2307262242160.3129@hadrien> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230726202920.507756-1-seanjc@google.com>
On Wed, 26 Jul 2023, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> Remove coccinelle's recommendation to use DEFINE_DEBUGFS_ATTRIBUTE()
> instead of DEFINE_SIMPLE_ATTRIBUTE(). Regardless of whether or not the
> "significant overhead" incurred by debugfs_create_file() is actually
> meaningful, warnings from the script have led to a rash of low-quality
> patches that have sowed confusion and consumed maintainer time for little
> to no benefit. There have been no less than four attempts to "fix" KVM,
> and a quick search on lore shows that KVM is not alone.
>
> This reverts commit 5103068eaca290f890a30aae70085fac44cecaf6.
Applied.
>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/87tu2nbnz3.fsf@mpe.ellerman.id.au
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/c0b98151-16b6-6d8f-1765-0f7d46682d60@redhat.com
> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230706072954.4881-1-duminjie%40vivo.com
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/Y2FsbufV00jbyF0B@google.com
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/Y2ENJJ1YiSg5oHiy@orome
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/7560b350e7b23786ce712118a9a504356ff1cca4.camel@kernel.org
> Suggested-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
> ---
>
> v2: Fix a copy+paste goof in the changelog, add Greg's Ack.
>
> .../api/debugfs/debugfs_simple_attr.cocci | 68 -------------------
> 1 file changed, 68 deletions(-)
> delete mode 100644 scripts/coccinelle/api/debugfs/debugfs_simple_attr.cocci
>
> diff --git a/scripts/coccinelle/api/debugfs/debugfs_simple_attr.cocci b/scripts/coccinelle/api/debugfs/debugfs_simple_attr.cocci
> deleted file mode 100644
> index 7c312310547c..000000000000
> --- a/scripts/coccinelle/api/debugfs/debugfs_simple_attr.cocci
> +++ /dev/null
> @@ -1,68 +0,0 @@
> -// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> -/// Use DEFINE_DEBUGFS_ATTRIBUTE rather than DEFINE_SIMPLE_ATTRIBUTE
> -/// for debugfs files.
> -///
> -//# Rationale: DEFINE_SIMPLE_ATTRIBUTE + debugfs_create_file()
> -//# imposes some significant overhead as compared to
> -//# DEFINE_DEBUGFS_ATTRIBUTE + debugfs_create_file_unsafe().
> -//
> -// Copyright (C): 2016 Nicolai Stange
> -// Options: --no-includes
> -//
> -
> -virtual context
> -virtual patch
> -virtual org
> -virtual report
> -
> -@dsa@
> -declarer name DEFINE_SIMPLE_ATTRIBUTE;
> -identifier dsa_fops;
> -expression dsa_get, dsa_set, dsa_fmt;
> -position p;
> -@@
> -DEFINE_SIMPLE_ATTRIBUTE@p(dsa_fops, dsa_get, dsa_set, dsa_fmt);
> -
> -@dcf@
> -expression name, mode, parent, data;
> -identifier dsa.dsa_fops;
> -@@
> -debugfs_create_file(name, mode, parent, data, &dsa_fops)
> -
> -
> -@context_dsa depends on context && dcf@
> -declarer name DEFINE_DEBUGFS_ATTRIBUTE;
> -identifier dsa.dsa_fops;
> -expression dsa.dsa_get, dsa.dsa_set, dsa.dsa_fmt;
> -@@
> -* DEFINE_SIMPLE_ATTRIBUTE(dsa_fops, dsa_get, dsa_set, dsa_fmt);
> -
> -
> -@patch_dcf depends on patch expression@
> -expression name, mode, parent, data;
> -identifier dsa.dsa_fops;
> -@@
> -- debugfs_create_file(name, mode, parent, data, &dsa_fops)
> -+ debugfs_create_file_unsafe(name, mode, parent, data, &dsa_fops)
> -
> -@patch_dsa depends on patch_dcf && patch@
> -identifier dsa.dsa_fops;
> -expression dsa.dsa_get, dsa.dsa_set, dsa.dsa_fmt;
> -@@
> -- DEFINE_SIMPLE_ATTRIBUTE(dsa_fops, dsa_get, dsa_set, dsa_fmt);
> -+ DEFINE_DEBUGFS_ATTRIBUTE(dsa_fops, dsa_get, dsa_set, dsa_fmt);
> -
> -
> -@script:python depends on org && dcf@
> -fops << dsa.dsa_fops;
> -p << dsa.p;
> -@@
> -msg="%s should be defined with DEFINE_DEBUGFS_ATTRIBUTE" % (fops)
> -coccilib.org.print_todo(p[0], msg)
> -
> -@script:python depends on report && dcf@
> -fops << dsa.dsa_fops;
> -p << dsa.p;
> -@@
> -msg="WARNING: %s should be defined with DEFINE_DEBUGFS_ATTRIBUTE" % (fops)
> -coccilib.report.print_report(p[0], msg)
>
> base-commit: 06c2afb862f9da8dc5efa4b6076a0e48c3fbaaa5
> --
> 2.41.0.487.g6d72f3e995-goog
>
>
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