2012-05-31 11:01:38

by Kamalesh Babulal

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Subject: checkpatch: False positive on wrong indentation within block.

Checkpatch does not warns about the wrong indentation within a block.
When checkpatch is run on following patch, it does not complain about
the wrong indentation of if block.

[...]
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c b/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
index fd019d7..a8d78f3 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
@@ -382,7 +382,12 @@ void __cpuinit set_cpu_sibling_map(int cpu)
if ((i == cpu) || (has_mc && match_llc(c, o)))
link_mask(llc_shared, cpu, i);

- if ((i == cpu) || (has_mc && match_mc(c, o))) {
+ }
+
+ for_each_cpu(i, cpu_sibling_setup_mask) {
+ o = &cpu_data(i);
+
+ if ((i == cpu) || (has_mc && match_mc(c, o))) {
link_mask(core, cpu, i);

/*

$ ./scripts/checkpatch.pl Fix-booted_cores-reporting.patch
total: 0 errors, 0 warnings, 13 lines checked

Fix-booted_cores-reporting.patch has no obvious style problems and is ready for submission.

Thanks,
Kamalesh.