Commit 5d430902 authored Apr 10, 2018 by Joe Perches Committed by Linus Torvalds Apr 11, 2018

checkpatch: whinge about bool bitfields

Using bool in a bitfield isn't a good idea as the alignment behavior is
arch implementation defined.

Suggest using unsigned int or u<8|16|32> instead.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/e22fb871b1b7f2fda4b22f3a24e0d7f092eb612c.camel@perches.com


Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

parent 38dca988

scripts/checkpatch.pl

+6 −0

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -6251,6 +6251,12 @@ sub process {
		}
		}

		# check for bool bitfields
		if ($sline =~ /^.\s+bool\s$Ident\s:\s\d+\s;/) {
		WARN("BOOL_BITFIELD",
		"Avoid using bool as bitfield. Prefer bool bitfields as unsigned int or u<8\|16\|32>\n" . $herecurr);
		}

		# check for semaphores initialized locked
		if ($line =~ /^.\s*sema_init.+,\W?0\W?\)/) {
		WARN("CONSIDER_COMPLETION",

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