scripts: get_abi.pl: better generate regex from what fields
Using repeating sequencies of .* seem to slow down the
processing speed on some cases. Also, currently, a "."
character is not properly handled as such.
Change the way regexes are created, in order to produce
better search expressions.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/c69c01c12b1b30466177dcb17e45f833fb47713d.1632994565.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
diff --git a/scripts/get_abi.pl b/scripts/get_abi.pl
index 2f3674b..6212f58b 100755
--- a/scripts/get_abi.pl
+++ b/scripts/get_abi.pl
@@ -842,8 +842,8 @@
# Convert what into regular expressions
- $what =~ s,/\.\.\./,/*/,g;
- $what =~ s,\*,.*,g;
+ # Escape dot characters
+ $what =~ s/\./\xf6/g;
# Temporarily change [0-9]+ type of patterns
$what =~ s/\[0\-9\]\+/\xff/g;
@@ -859,6 +859,8 @@
$what =~ s/[\{\<\[]([\w_]+)(?:[,|]+([\w_]+)){1,}[\}\>\]]/($1|$2)/g;
# Handle wildcards
+ $what =~ s,\*,.*,g;
+ $what =~ s,/\xf6..,/.*,g;
$what =~ s/\<[^\>]+\>/.*/g;
$what =~ s/\{[^\}]+\}/.*/g;
$what =~ s/\[[^\]]+\]/.*/g;
@@ -891,6 +893,13 @@
# Special case: IIO ABI which a parenthesis.
$what =~ s/sqrt(.*)/sqrt\(.*\)/;
+ # Simplify regexes with multiple .*
+ $what =~ s#(?:\.\*){2,}##g;
+# $what =~ s#\.\*/\.\*#.*#g;
+
+ # Recover dot characters
+ $what =~ s/\xf6/\./g;
+
my $leave = get_leave($what);
my $added = 0;