Re: [PATCH 00/22] Add and use pci_zalloc_consistent

[Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>]

(Adding Julia Lawall and removing almost all other cc's)

On Tue, 2014-06-24 at 09:27 +1000, Julian Calaby wrote:
> Hi Joe,

Hello Julian.

> > $ cat ./scripts/coccinelle/api/alloc/pci_zalloc_consistent.cocci
> > ///
> > /// Use pci_zalloc_consistent rather than
> > ///     pci_alloc_consistent followed by memset with 0
> > ///
> > /// This considers some simple cases that are common and easy to validate
> > /// Note in particular that there are no ...s in the rule, so all of the
> > /// matched code has to be contiguous
> > ///
> > /// Blatantly cribbed from: scripts/coccinelle/api/alloc/kzalloc-simple.cocci
> >
> > @@
> > type T, T2;
> > expression x;
> > expression E1,E2,E3;
> > statement S;
> > @@
> >
> > - x = (T)pci_alloc_consistent(E1,E2,E3);
> > + x = pci_zalloc_consistent(E1,E2,E3);
> >   if ((x==NULL) || ...) S
> > - memset((T2)x,0,E2);
> 
> I don't know much about SmPL, but wouldn't having that if statement
> there reduce your matches?

No, not really.

Almost none of the pci_alloc_consistent calls
do not have a test for failure immediately after
them.

Coccinelle is a very cool code transformation tool,
quite useful for these sorts of patch conversions.

http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/documentation.php