DPDK patches and discussions
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, doucette@bu.edu
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] check-symbol-change: fix regex to match on end of map file
Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2018 23:25:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <14977941.BcdJQmDsnJ@xps> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181102115045.GA31972@hmswarspite.think-freely.org>

02/11/2018 12:50, Neil Horman:
> On Thu, Nov 01, 2018 at 11:53:00PM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > 01/11/2018 14:54, Neil Horman:
> > > the regex to determine the end of the map file chunk in a patch seems to
> > > be wrong,  It was using perl regex syntax, which awk doesn't appear to
> > > support (I'm still not sure how it was working previously).  Regardless,
> > > it wasn't triggering and as a result symbols were getting added to the
> > > mapdb that shouldn't be there.
> > > 
> > > Fix it by converting the regex to use traditional posix syntax, matching
> > > only on the negation of the character class [^map]
> > > 
> > > Tested and shown to be working on the ip_frag patch set provided by
> > > doucette@bu.edu
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
> > > CC: thomas@monjalon.net
> > > CC: doucette@bu.edu
> > > Reported-by: doucette@bu.edu
> > 
> > You could use these lines:
> > 
> > Fixes: 4bec48184e33 ("devtools: add checks for ABI symbol addition")
> > 
> > Reported-by: Cody Doucette <doucette@bu.edu>
> > 
> I'm fine with the second line, and the first is fine I guess, but I'm not sure
> there is an exact correlation
> 
> > > --- a/devtools/check-symbol-change.sh
> > > +++ b/devtools/check-symbol-change.sh
> > > -		/[-+] a\/.*\.^(map)/ {in_map=0}
> > > +		/[-+] a\/.*\.[^map]/ {in_map=0}
> > 
> > Not sure this is what you intend:
> > [^map] means any character except "m", "a" and "p".
> > 
> Its not 100%, but its pretty close.  The regex for exact matching on not a
> specific string is pretty large and complex.  Since we have no files that that
> end in .m .a or .p, this should give us what we want for the forseeable future.
> 
> > I don't know whether awk supports this syntax: (?!foo)
> > 
> It unfortunately doesn't, thats perl syntax, and while grep I think supports it,
> awk is more strictly posix compliant.

I understand now.

Applied, thanks

      reply	other threads:[~2018-11-18 22:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-11-01 13:54 Neil Horman
2018-11-01 22:53 ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-11-02 11:50   ` Neil Horman
2018-11-18 22:25     ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=14977941.BcdJQmDsnJ@xps \
    --to=thomas@monjalon.net \
    --cc=dev@dpdk.org \
    --cc=doucette@bu.edu \
    --cc=nhorman@tuxdriver.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).