Improve the incremental rebuilding support of "coccicheck" by
piggy-backing on the computed dependency information of the
corresponding *.o file, rather than rebuilding all <RULE>/<FILE> pairs
if either their corresponding file changes, or if any header changes.
This in effect uses the same method that the "sparse" target was made
to use in c234e8a0ec (Makefile: make the "sparse" target non-.PHONY,
2021-09-23), except that the dependency on the *.o file isn't a hard
one, we check with $(wildcard) if the *.o file exists, and if so we'll
depend on it.
This means that the common case of:
make
make coccicheck
Will benefit from incremental rebuilding, now changing e.g. a header
will only re-run "spatch" on those those *.c files that make use of
it:
By depending on the *.o we piggy-back on
COMPUTE_HEADER_DEPENDENCIES. See c234e8a0ec (Makefile: make the
"sparse" target non-.PHONY, 2021-09-23) for prior art of doing that
for the *.sp files. E.g.:
make contrib/coccinelle/free.cocci.patch
make -W column.h contrib/coccinelle/free.cocci.patch
Will take around 15 seconds for the second command on my 8 core box if
I didn't run "make" beforehand to create the *.o files. But around 2
seconds if I did and we have those "*.o" files.
Notes about the approach of piggy-backing on *.o for dependencies:
* It *is* a trade-off since we'll pay the extra cost of running the C
compiler, but we're probably doing that anyway. The compiler is much
faster than "spatch", so even though we need to re-compile the *.o to
create the dependency info for the *.c for "spatch" it's
faster (especially if using "ccache").
* There *are* use-cases where some would like to have *.o files
around, but to have the "make coccicheck" ignore them. See:
https://lore.kernel.org/git/20220826104312.GJ1735@szeder.dev/
For those users a:
make
make coccicheck SPATCH_USE_O_DEPENDENCIES=
Will avoid considering the *.o files.
* If that *.o file doesn't exist we'll depend on an intermediate file
of ours which in turn depends on $(FOUND_H_SOURCES).
This covers both an initial build, or where "coccicheck" is run
without running "all" beforehand, and because we run "coccicheck"
on e.g. files in compat/* that we don't know how to build unless
the requisite flag was provided to the Makefile.
Most of the runtime of "incremental" runs is now spent on various
compat/* files, i.e. we conditionally add files to COMPAT_OBJS, and
therefore conflate whether we *can* compile an object and generate
dependency information for it with whether we'd like to link it
into our binary.
Before this change the distinction didn't matter, but now one way
to make this even faster on incremental builds would be to peel
those concerns apart so that we can see that e.g. compat/mmap.c
doesn't depend on column.h.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Teach `make coccicheck` to avoid patches named "*.pending.cocci" and
handle them separately in a new `make coccicheck-pending` instead.
This means that we can separate "critical" patches from "FYI" patches.
The former target can continue causing Travis to fail its static
analysis job, while the latter can let us keep an eye on ongoing
(pending) transitions without them causing too much fallout.
Document the intended use-cases around these two targets.
As the process around the pending patches is not yet fully explored,
leave that out.
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Based-on-work-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Coccinelle (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) is a program which performs
mechanical transformations on C programs using semantic patches. These
semantic patches can be used to implement automatic refactoring and
maintenance tasks.
Add a set of basic semantic patches to convert common patterns related
to the struct object_id transformation, as well as a README.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
