Re: [PATCH] sched/core: Drop debugging leftover trace_printk call

[Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>]

On Tue, 2015-04-07 at 14:47 +0100, Juri Lelli wrote:
> how about we add also something like this to checkpatch?

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> Production kernels will scream if trace_printk() is used (thanks to
> Rostedt's banner). Rather than waiting for that to happen, let's check
> patches beforehand.
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> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
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> @@ -3257,6 +3257,12 @@ sub process {
>  			     "Prefer printk_ratelimited or pr_<level>_ratelimited to printk_ratelimit\n" . $herecurr);
>  		}
>  
> +# check for uses of trace_printk
> +		if ($line =~ /\btrace_printk\s*\(/) {
> +			ERROR("TRACE_PRINTK",
> +			      "Never use trace_printk in production code!\n" . $herecurr);
> +		}

OK by me with a couple Nits:

o Please add a test for $realfile !~ m@kernel/trace/@
  or maybe $realfile !~ /(?:trace|tracing)/
o ERROR seems a bit strong, WARN is probably good enough