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| author | Bjorn Helgaas | 2022-03-23 16:05:32 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds | 2022-03-23 19:00:33 -0700 |
| commit | 179fd6ba3bacbf7b19cbdf9b14be109d54318394 (patch) | |
| tree | b996ecbbe3a68711d3a4ee8afe129828dcc65e58 /Documentation/dev-tools | |
| parent | c724c866bb70cb8c607081a26823a1f0ebde4387 (diff) | |
Documentation/sparse: add hints about __CHECKER__
Several attributes depend on __CHECKER__, but previously there was no
clue in the tree about when __CHECKER__ might be defined. Add hints at
the most common places (__kernel, __user, __iomem, __bitwise) and in the
sparse documentation.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220310220927.245704-3-helgaas@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Cc: "Michael S . Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/dev-tools')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/dev-tools/sparse.rst | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/sparse.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/sparse.rst index 02102be7ff49..dc791c8d84d1 100644 --- a/Documentation/dev-tools/sparse.rst +++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/sparse.rst @@ -100,3 +100,5 @@ have already built it. The optional make variable CF can be used to pass arguments to sparse. The build system passes -Wbitwise to sparse automatically. + +Note that sparse defines the __CHECKER__ preprocessor symbol. |