Commit 5d430902 authored by Joe Perches's avatar Joe Perches Committed by Linus Torvalds

checkpatch: whinge about bool bitfields

Using bool in a bitfield isn't a good idea as the alignment behavior is
arch implementation defined.

Suggest using unsigned int or u<8|16|32> instead.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/e22fb871b1b7f2fda4b22f3a24e0d7f092eb612c.camel@perches.comSigned-off-by: default avatarJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Suggested-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 38dca988
......@@ -6251,6 +6251,12 @@ sub process {
}
}
# check for bool bitfields
if ($sline =~ /^.\s+bool\s*$Ident\s*:\s*\d+\s*;/) {
WARN("BOOL_BITFIELD",
"Avoid using bool as bitfield. Prefer bool bitfields as unsigned int or u<8|16|32>\n" . $herecurr);
}
# check for semaphores initialized locked
if ($line =~ /^.\s*sema_init.+,\W?0\W?\)/) {
WARN("CONSIDER_COMPLETION",
......
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