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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 /include/uapi | |
| 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 'include/uapi')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/uapi/linux/types.h | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/types.h b/include/uapi/linux/types.h index 71696f424ac8..c4dc597f3dcf 100644 --- a/include/uapi/linux/types.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/types.h @@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ * any application/library that wants linux/types.h. */ +/* sparse defines __CHECKER__; see Documentation/dev-tools/sparse.rst */ #ifdef __CHECKER__ #define __bitwise __attribute__((bitwise)) #else |