From: John Moon <quic_johmoo@quicinc.com>
To: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>,
Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>,
Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>,
"Nicolas Schier" <nicolas@fjasle.eu>
Cc: <linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
<linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
<linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org>,
"Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
Bjorn Andersson <andersson@kernel.org>,
Todd Kjos <tkjos@google.com>,
Matthias Maennich <maennich@google.com>,
Giuliano Procida <gprocida@google.com>, <kernel-team@android.com>,
<libabigail@sourceware.org>, Jordan Crouse <jorcrous@amazon.com>,
Trilok Soni <quic_tsoni@quicinc.com>,
"Satya Durga Srinivasu Prabhala" <quic_satyap@quicinc.com>,
Elliot Berman <quic_eberman@quicinc.com>,
Guru Das Srinagesh <quic_gurus@quicinc.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] check-uapi: Introduce check-uapi.sh
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2023 12:53:54 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6d55e7af-4d68-2872-f407-268c3a4e95c8@quicinc.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230327174140.8169-2-quic_johmoo@quicinc.com>
On 3/27/2023 10:41 AM, John Moon wrote:
> While the kernel community has been good at maintaining backwards
> compatibility with kernel UAPIs, it would be helpful to have a tool
> to check if a commit introduces changes that break backwards
> compatibility.
>
> To that end, introduce check-uapi.sh: a simple shell script that
> checks for changes to UAPI headers using libabigail.
>
> libabigail is "a framework which aims at helping developers and
> software distributors to spot some ABI-related issues like interface
> incompatibility in ELF shared libraries by performing a static
> analysis of the ELF binaries at hand."
>
> The script uses one of libabigail's tools, "abidiff", to compile the
> changed header before and after the commit to detect any changes.
>
> abidiff "compares the ABI of two shared libraries in ELF format. It
> emits a meaningful report describing the differences between the two
> ABIs."
>
> The script also includes the ability to check the compatibility of
> all UAPI headers across commits. This allows developers to inspect
> the stability of the UAPIs over time.
>
> Signed-off-by: John Moon <quic_johmoo@quicinc.com>
> ---
> - Refactored to exclusively check headers installed by make
> headers_install. This simplified the code dramatically and removed
> the need to perform complex git diffs.
> - Removed the "-m" flag. Since we're checking all installed headers
> every time, a flag to check only modified files didn't make sense.
> - Added info message when usr/include/Makefile is not present that
> it's likely because that file was only introduced in v5.3.
> - Changed default behavior of log file. Now, the script will not
> create a log file unless you pass "-l <file>".
> - Simplified exit handler.
> - Added -j $MAX_THREADS to make headers_install to improve speed.
> - Cleaned up variable references.
Hi Masahiro, just a friendly reminder about this patch. I believe we've
addressed all of your comments from previous reviews and we're looking
forward to your feedback on this version.
Thanks so much!
- John
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-04-03 19:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-03-27 17:41 [PATCH v4 0/2] Validating UAPI backwards compatibility John Moon
2023-03-27 17:41 ` [PATCH v4 1/2] check-uapi: Introduce check-uapi.sh John Moon
2023-04-03 19:53 ` John Moon [this message]
2023-04-07 19:19 ` Masahiro Yamada
2023-04-07 20:08 ` John Moon
2023-04-07 19:27 ` Masahiro Yamada
2023-04-07 20:09 ` John Moon
2023-03-27 17:41 ` [PATCH v4 2/2] docs: dev-tools: Add UAPI checker documentation John Moon
2023-03-28 18:10 ` Nick Desaulniers
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