Re: [PATCH] scripts: check-sysctl-docs: adapt to new API

["Thomas Weißschuh " <thomas@t-8ch.de>]

Dec 24, 2023 19:44:42 Joel Granados <j.granados@samsung.com>:

> On Wed, Dec 20, 2023 at 10:30:26PM +0100, Thomas Weißschuh wrote:
>> The script expects the old sysctl_register_paths() API which was removed
>> some time ago. Adapt it to work with the new
>> sysctl_register()/sysctl_register_sz()/sysctl_register_init() APIs.
>>
>> In its reference invocation the script won't be able to parse the tables
>> from ipc/ipc_sysctl.c as they are using dynamically built tables which
>> are to complex to parse.
>>
>> Note that the script is already prepared for a potential constification
>> of the ctl_table structs.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
>> ---
>> scripts/check-sysctl-docs | 42 ++++++++++++------------------------------
>> 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/scripts/check-sysctl-docs b/scripts/check-sysctl-docs
>> index 4f163e0bf6a4..bd18ab4b950b 100755
>> --- a/scripts/check-sysctl-docs
>> +++ b/scripts/check-sysctl-docs
>> @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
>> # Example invocation:
>> #  scripts/check-sysctl-docs -vtable="kernel" \
>> #      Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst \
>> -#      $(git grep -l register_sysctl_)
>> +#      $(git grep -l register_sysctl)
>> #
>> # Specify -vdebug=1 to see debugging information
>>
>> @@ -20,14 +20,12 @@ BEGIN {
>> }
>>
>> # The following globals are used:
>> -# children: maps ctl_table names and procnames to child ctl_table names
>> # documented: maps documented entries (each key is an entry)
>> # entries: maps ctl_table names and procnames to counts (so
>> #          enumerating the subkeys for a given ctl_table lists its
>> #          procnames)
>> # files: maps procnames to source file names
>> # paths: maps ctl_path names to paths
>> -# curpath: the name of the current ctl_path struct
>> # curtable: the name of the current ctl_table struct
>> # curentry: the name of the current proc entry (procname when parsing
>> #           a ctl_table, constructed path when parsing a ctl_path)
>> @@ -94,44 +92,24 @@ FNR == NR {
>>
>> # Stage 2: process each file and find all sysctl tables
>> BEGINFILE {
>> -    delete children
>>      delete entries
>>      delete paths
> Why did you leave paths? As I read it you remove the use of paths and
> now this is not needed any longer.

Good catch, I'll drop it for V2.

>
>> -    curpath = ""
>>      curtable = ""
>>      curentry = ""
>>      if (debug) print "Processing file " FILENAME
>> }
>>
>> -/^static struct ctl_path/ {
>> -    match($0, /static struct ctl_path ([^][]+)/, tables)
>> -    curpath = tables[1]
>> -    if (debug) print "Processing path " curpath
>> -}
>> -
>> -/^static struct ctl_table/ {
>> -    match($0, /static struct ctl_table ([^][]+)/, tables)
>> -    curtable = tables[1]
>> +/^static( const)? struct ctl_table/ {
>> +    match($0, /static( const)? struct ctl_table ([^][]+)/, tables)
> Would these regular expressions match lines that have more than one
> spaces before const?

No. But it is consistent with the other regexes.

>> +    curtable = tables[2]
>>      if (debug) print "Processing table " curtable
>> }
>>
>> /^};$/ {
>> -    curpath = ""
>>      curtable = ""
>>      curentry = ""
>> }
>>
>> -curpath && /\.procname[\t ]*=[\t ]*".+"/ {
>> -    match($0, /.procname[\t ]*=[\t ]*"([^"]+)"/, names)
>> -    if (curentry) {
>> -   curentry = curentry "/" names[1]
>> -    } else {
>> -   curentry = names[1]
>> -    }
>> -    if (debug) print "Setting path " curpath " to " curentry
>> -    paths[curpath] = curentry
>> -}
>> -
>> curtable && /\.procname[\t ]*=[\t ]*".+"/ {
>>      match($0, /.procname[\t ]*=[\t ]*"([^"]+)"/, names)
>>      curentry = names[1]
>> @@ -140,10 +118,14 @@ curtable && /\.procname[\t ]*=[\t ]*".+"/ {
>>      file[curentry] = FILENAME
>> }
>>
>> -/\.child[\t ]*=/ {
>> -    child = trimpunct($NF)
>> -    if (debug) print "Linking child " child " to table " curtable " entry " curentry
>> -    children[curtable][curentry] = child
>> +/register_sysctl.*/ {
>> +    match($0, /register_sysctl(|_init|_sz)\("([^"]+)" *, *([^,)]+)/, tables)
>> +    if (debug) print "Registering table " tables[3] " at " tables[2]
>> +    if (tables[2] == table) {
>> +        for (entry in entries[tables[3]]) {
>> +            printentry(entry)
>> +        }
>> +    }
>> }
>>
>> END {
>>
>> ---
>> base-commit: 1a44b0073b9235521280e19d963b6dfef7888f18
>> change-id: 20231220-sysctl-check-8802651d945d
>>
>> Best regards,
>> --
>> Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
>>
>
> --
>
> Joel Granados