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On Sun, Dec 29, 2019 at 04:42:54PM +0100, Julia Lawall wrote: > Mmgrab was introduced in commit f1f1007644ff ("mm: add new mmgrab() > helper") and most of the kernel was updated to use it. Update a few > remaining files. I wonder if there is an automatic way to generate these kind of Coccinelle scripts which use inlines instead of open coding. Like maybe make a list of one line functions, and then auto generate a recipe. Or the mmgrab() function could have multiple lines if the first few were just sanity checks for NULL or something... regards, dan carpenter
On Fri, 3 Jan 2020, Dan Carpenter wrote: > On Sun, Dec 29, 2019 at 04:42:54PM +0100, Julia Lawall wrote: > > Mmgrab was introduced in commit f1f1007644ff ("mm: add new mmgrab() > > helper") and most of the kernel was updated to use it. Update a few > > remaining files. > > I wonder if there is an automatic way to generate these kind of > Coccinelle scripts which use inlines instead of open coding. Like maybe > make a list of one line functions, and then auto generate a recipe. Or > the mmgrab() function could have multiple lines if the first few were > just sanity checks for NULL or something... I tried this at one point (10 years ago!): https://pages.lip6.fr/Julia.Lawall/acp4is09-lawall.pdf Perhaps it is worth reviving. julia