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Upcoming changes require a notation to specify regular expression
matches for regular verifier log messages, disassembly of BPF
instructions, disassembly of jited instructions.
Neither basic nor extended POSIX regular expressions w/o additional
escaping are good for this role because of wide use of special
characters in disassembly, for example:
movq -0x10(%rbp), %rax ;; () are special characters
cmpq $0x21, %rax ;; $ is a special character
*(u64 *)(r10 -16) = r1 ;; * and () are special characters
This commit borrows syntax from LLVM's FileCheck utility.
It replaces __regex macro with ability to embed regular expressions
in __msg patters using "{{" "}}" pairs for escaping.
Syntax for __msg patterns:
pattern := (<verbatim text> | regex)*
regex := "{{" <posix extended regular expression> "}}"
For example, pattern "foo{{[0-9]+}}" matches strings like
"foo0", "foo007", etc.
Signed-off-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240820102357.3372779-5-eddyz87@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.