[PATCH 2/4] modpost: add PATTERNS() helper macro

[Masahiro Yamada]

This will be useful to define a NULL-terminated array inside a function
call.

Currently, string arrays passed to match() are defined in separate
places:

    static const char *const init_sections[] = { ALL_INIT_SECTIONS, NULL };
    static const char *const text_sections[] = { ALL_TEXT_SECTIONS, NULL };
    static const char *const optim_symbols[] = { "*.constprop.*", NULL };

            ...

            /* Check for pattern 5 */
            if (match(fromsec, text_sections) &&
                match(tosec, init_sections) &&
                match(fromsym, optim_symbols))
                    return 0;

With the new helper macro, you can list the patterns directly in the
function call, like this:

            /* Check for pattern 5 */
            if (match(fromsec, PATTERNS(ALL_TEXT_SECTIONS)) &&
                match(tosec, PATTERNS(ALL_INIT_SECTIONS)) &&
                match(fromsym, PATTERNS("*.contprop.*")))
                    return 0;

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx>
---

 scripts/mod/modpost.c | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/scripts/mod/modpost.c b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
index 9e8ae2636ec1..c2949a1a0d5e 100644
--- a/scripts/mod/modpost.c
+++ b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
@@ -746,6 +746,13 @@ static bool match(const char *string, const char *const patterns[])
 	return false;
 }
 
+/* useful to pass patterns to match() directly */
+#define PATTERNS(...) \
+	({ \
+		static const char *const patterns[] = {__VA_ARGS__, NULL}; \
+		patterns; \
+	})
+
 /* sections that we do not want to do full section mismatch check on */
 static const char *const section_white_list[] =
 {
-- 
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