Commit 291b9d73 authored Feb 13, 2017 by Matthew Wilcox Committed by Jonathan Corbet Feb 15, 2017

Improve sparse documentation



Add documentation of -DCONFIG_SPARSE_RCU_POINTER.
I started to add documentation of -D__CHECK_ENDIAN__ as well, but
discovered I'm too late; that's now enabled by default.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

parent c33dea1e

Documentation/dev-tools/sparse.rst

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		The optional make variable CF can be used to pass arguments to sparse. The
		build system passes -Wbitwise to sparse automatically.

		Checking RCU annotations
		~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

		RCU annotations are not checked by default. To enable RCU annotation
		checks, include -DCONFIG_SPARSE_RCU_POINTER in your CF flags.