Commit 179fd6ba authored by Bjorn Helgaas's avatar Bjorn Helgaas Committed by Linus Torvalds

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.orgSigned-off-by: default avatarBjorn 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: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent c724c866
......@@ -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.
......@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
#ifndef __ASSEMBLY__
/* sparse defines __CHECKER__; see Documentation/dev-tools/sparse.rst */
#ifdef __CHECKER__
/* address spaces */
# define __kernel __attribute__((address_space(0)))
......
......@@ -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
......
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