checkpatch: fix UNNECESSARY_KERN_LEVEL false positive

KERN_<LEVEL> is never redundant with printk_ratelimited or printk_once.
(Except perhaps in the sense that you could use e.g.  pr_err_ratelimited
or pr_err_once, but that would apply to printk as well).

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 221a2b2..f130c93 100755 (executable)
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -4547,7 +4547,7 @@ sub process {
                }
 
 # check for logging functions with KERN_<LEVEL>
-               if ($line !~ /printk\s*\(/ &&
+               if ($line !~ /printk(?:_ratelimited|_once)?\s*\(/ &&
                    $line =~ /\b$logFunctions\s*\(.*\b(KERN_[A-Z]+)\b/) {
                        my $level = $1;
                        if (WARN("UNNECESSARY_KERN_LEVEL",