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From:   Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Date:   Thu, 13 Aug 2020 10:34:50 +0900
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] kbuild: clang-tidy
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On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 7:53 AM Nick Desaulniers
<ndesaulniers@google.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 12:56 PM Nathan Huckleberry <nhuck@google.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 12:40 PM Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > I improved gen_compile_commands.py in the first two patches,
> > > then rebased Nathan's v7 [1] on top of them.
> > > To save time, I modified the Makefile part.
> > > No change for run-clang-tools.py
> > >
> > > I am not sure if the new directory, scripts/clang-tools/,
> > > is worth creating only for 2 files, but I do not have
> > > a strong opinion about it.
> > >
> > > "make clang-tidy" should work in-tree build,
> > > out-of-tree build (O=), and external module build (M=).
> > > Tests and reviews are appreciated.
> > >
> > > "make clang-tidy" worked for me.
> > >
> > > masahiro@oscar:~/workspace/linux-kbuild$ make -j24 CC=clang clang-tidy
> > >   DESCEND  objtool
> > >   CALL    scripts/atomic/check-atomics.sh
> > >   CALL    scripts/checksyscalls.sh
> > >   CHK     include/generated/compile.h
> > >   GEN     compile_commands.json
> > >   CHECK   compile_commands.json
> > >
> > > But "make clang-analyzer" just sprinkled the following error:
> > >
> > >   Error: no checks enabled.
> > >   USAGE: clang-tidy [options] <source0> [... <sourceN>]
>
> I wasn't able to reproduce Masahiro's reported failure, but seeing as
> he has `GEN` for compile_commands.json and I have `CHK`, I wonder if
> that's from a run when the series was still under development?
>
> I can reproduce if I run:
> $ clang-tidy '-checks='
> so maybe was string quoting problem?
>
> > >
> > > I built clang-tidy from the latest source.
> > > I had no idea how to make it work...
> >
> > How are you building clang-tidy? The clang static-analyzer may not
> > have been built.
> > I believe the static analyzer is built as a part of clang, not as a
> > part of clang-tools-extra.
> >
> > I use this command to build.
> > cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE="release"
> > -DLLVM_TARGETS_TO_BUILD="X86;AArch64;ARM;RISCV"
> > -DLLVM_ENABLE_PROJECTS="clang;clang-tools-extra;lld;llvm-as"
> > -DLLVM_ENABLE_LLD=1 -G "Ninja" ../llvm
> >
> > Adding clang to the list of -DLLVM_ENABLE_PROJECTS will build the
> > static analyzer.
> > -DCLANG_ENABLE_STATIC_ANALYZER=1 might also work, but I haven't tested it.
> >
> > I tested the patchset and both clang-tidy and clang-analyzer work for me.
>
> If you rename clang-tidy in your build dir, and ensure you don't have
> a `clang-tidy` in your $PATH (`which clang-tidy`), maybe there's more
> we can do to politely inform the user they're missing a dependency to
> execute the make target?  Not sure if we could could test that
> clang-tidy supports the clang-analyzer-* checks.  Isn't there an
> invocation that prints the supported checks? `clang-tidy '-checks=*'
> --list-checks` is in my shell history.  Maybe grepping that and
> informing the user how to fix the problem might solve a "papercut?"
>
> If I remove clang-tidy with this series applied, I get (the failure is
> obvious to me, but...):
> ```
> $ make LLVM=1 -j71 clang-tidy
> ...
> multiprocessing.pool.RemoteTraceback:
> """
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/lib/python3.8/multiprocessing/pool.py", line 125, in worker
>     result = (True, func(*args, **kwds))
>   File "/usr/lib/python3.8/multiprocessing/pool.py", line 48, in mapstar
>     return list(map(*args))
>   File "./scripts/clang-tools/run-clang-tools.py", line 54, in run_analysis
>     p = subprocess.run(["clang-tidy", "-p", args.path, checks, entry["file"]],
>   File "/usr/lib/python3.8/subprocess.py", line 489, in run
>     with Popen(*popenargs, **kwargs) as process:
>   File "/usr/lib/python3.8/subprocess.py", line 854, in __init__
>     self._execute_child(args, executable, preexec_fn, close_fds,
>   File "/usr/lib/python3.8/subprocess.py", line 1702, in _execute_child
>     raise child_exception_type(errno_num, err_msg, err_filename)
> FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'clang-tidy'
> """
>
> The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "./scripts/clang-tools/run-clang-tools.py", line 74, in <module>
>     main()
>   File "./scripts/clang-tools/run-clang-tools.py", line 70, in main
>     pool.map(run_analysis, datastore)
>   File "/usr/lib/python3.8/multiprocessing/pool.py", line 364, in map
>     return self._map_async(func, iterable, mapstar, chunksize).get()
>   File "/usr/lib/python3.8/multiprocessing/pool.py", line 771, in get
>     raise self._value
> FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'clang-tidy'
> make: *** [Makefile:1861: clang-tidy] Error 1
> ```
> $ clang-tidy '-checks=*' --list-checks | grep clang-analyzer | wc -l
> 111
>
> And I'm not sure you can even build clang or clang-tidy but not the analyzer.


I rebuilt clang-tools-extra with -DCLANG_ENABLE_STATIC_ANALYZER on,
and now clang-analyzer worked for me.  :)

Perhaps, we could do some checks for clang-tidy.
I am OK with leaving it as a follow-up work.

-- 
Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada