Re: [PATCH 00/13] make range overlap check more readable

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

On 22/7/24 08:59, Xingtao Yao (Fujitsu) wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
> > Sent: Monday, July 22, 2024 2:43 PM
> > To: Yao, Xingtao/姚 幸涛 <yaoxt.fnst@fujitsu.com>; qemu-devel@nongnu.org
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/13] make range overlap check more readable
> >
> > Hi Yao,
> >
> > On 22/7/24 06:07, Yao Xingtao via wrote:
> > > Currently, some components still open-coding the range overlap check.
> > > Sometimes this check may be fail because some patterns are missed.
> >
> > How did you catch all these use cases?
> I used the Coccinelle to match these use cases, the pattern is below
> range_overlap.cocci:
>
> // use ranges_overlap() instead of open-coding the overlap check
> @@
> expression E1, E2, E3, E4;
> @@
> (
> - E2 <= E3 || E1 >= E4
> + !ranges_overlap(E1, E2, E3, E4)
> |
>
> - (E2 <= E3) || (E1 >= E4)
> + !ranges_overlap(E1, E2, E3, E4)
> |
>
> - E1 < E4 && E2 > E3
> + ranges_overlap(E1, E2, E3, E4)
> |
>
> - (E1 < E4) && (E2 > E3)
> + ranges_overlap(E1, E2, E3, E4)
> |
>
> - (E1 >= E3 && E1 < E4) || (E2 > E3 && E2 <= E4)
> + ranges_overlap(E1, E2, E3, E4)
>
> |
> - ((E1 >= E3) && (E1 < E4)) || ((E2 > E3) && (E2 <= E4))
> + ranges_overlap(E1, E2, E3, E4)
> )

Please add to scripts/coccinelle/range.cocci.

> then execute the command:
> # spatch --macro-file scripts/cocci-macro-file.h --sp-file range_overlap.cocci 
> --keep-comments --in-place --use-gitgrep --dir .
>
> but some of the matched cases are not valid and need to be
> manually judged.
>
> there may be cases that have not been matched yet.