On Thu, Aug 07, 2025 at 04:27:41PM +0200, Stefan Metzmacher wrote: > > The DB is too big and too dependent on your .config but I should > > share the smatch_data/ more regularly. I started to push that into > > a separate git repo but I didn't finish that work. I should do > > that. > > Ok, what's the gain of updating it? > Does it help when doing fixes on old kernels? If you run smatch_scripts/build_kernel_data.sh then it runs smatch_scripts/gen_* which generates a bunch of the files in smatch_data/. Which in theory should enable more warnings for new code. I've been moving away from generating files and more towards putting everything in the DB. I just took a look at the files now to respond to your email and what I saw wasn't good... I need to look at this some more. I don't know how often the zero day bot rebuilds the smatch_data. I bet they never do and so I think it doesn't really matter. > > I'm typically doing a full kernel build a week after each rc. > My idea was to rebuild the whole db after doing that. Yeah. That's a good strategy. The data from the existing DB feeds into the new one when you rebuild the DB so don't delete the old DB at the start or anything. regards, dan carpenter
