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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
	Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>, Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>,
	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] checkpatch.pl: Add check for task comm references
Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 16:22:41 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1305588161.2503.46.camel@Joe-Laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <op.vvlj1vad3l0zgt@mnazarewicz-glaptop>

On Tue, 2011-05-17 at 01:11 +0200, Michal Nazarewicz wrote:
> On Tue, 17 May 2011 01:04:50 +0200, Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2011-05-16 at 14:34 -0700, David Rientjes wrote:
> >> On Mon, 16 May 2011, Michal Nazarewicz wrote:
> >> > > Now that accessing current->comm needs to be protected,
> >> > > +# check for current->comm usage
> >> > > +		if ($line =~ /\b(?:current|task|tsk|t)\s*->\s*comm\b/) {
> >> > Not a checkpatch.pl expert but as far as I'm concerned, that looks  
> >> reasonable.
> > You don't need (?: just (
> Yep, it's a micro-optimisation though.

True, but it's not the common style in checkpatch.
You could submit patches to add non-capture markers to other () uses.


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  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-16 23:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-16 21:19 [PATCH 0/3] v4 Improve task->comm locking situation John Stultz
2011-05-16 21:19 ` [PATCH 1/3] comm: Introduce comm_lock seqlock to protect task->comm access John Stultz
2011-05-16 22:01   ` Jiri Slaby
2011-05-17  1:47     ` John Stultz
2011-05-18  0:28   ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2011-05-16 21:19 ` [PATCH 2/3] printk: Add %ptc to safely print a task's comm John Stultz
2011-05-16 21:54   ` Jiri Slaby
2011-05-16 23:10     ` John Stultz
2011-05-16 23:56       ` Joe Perches
2011-05-17  0:11         ` John Stultz
2011-05-17  7:21         ` Jiri Slaby
2011-05-18  0:32   ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2011-05-16 21:19 ` [PATCH 3/3] checkpatch.pl: Add check for task comm references John Stultz
2011-05-16 21:29   ` Michal Nazarewicz
2011-05-16 21:34     ` David Rientjes
2011-05-16 23:04       ` Joe Perches
2011-05-16 23:11         ` Michal Nazarewicz
2011-05-16 23:22           ` Joe Perches [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-05-17 20:47 [PATCH 0/3] v5 Improve task->comm locking situation John Stultz
2011-05-17 20:47 ` [PATCH 3/3] checkpatch.pl: Add check for task comm references John Stultz
2011-05-17 20:58   ` Jiri Slaby
2011-05-17 21:04   ` Michal Nazarewicz

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