The context feature of sparse is used with the Linux kernel sources to
check for imbalanced uses of locks. Document the annotations defined in
include/linux/compiler.h that tell sparse what to expect when a lock is
held on function entry, exit, or both.
Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Acked-by: Christopher Li <sparse@chrisli.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
pavel@suse.cz no longer works, replace it with working address.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
The location of the sparse web page and git tree were no longer
valid. This changes them to point to the current versions.
Signed-off-by: Bill Pemberton <wfp5p@virginia.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Documentation/sparse.txt tells to use:
make C=2 CHECKFLAGS="-D__CHECK_ENDIAN__"
However, this still doesn't enable endian checks. The correct syntax is:
make C=2 CF="-D__CHECK_ENDIAN__"
This documentation bug was introduced by the following commit:
commit 1c7bafe720
Author: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Date: Wed Sep 13 07:57:50 2006 -0400
kbuild: clarify "make C=" build option
Clarify the use of "make C=" in the top-level Makefile, and fix a
typo in the Documentation file.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
This `typo' was not a typo, as `CF' had been introduced much earlier, by:
commit 7b49bb9aff
Author: viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Date: Fri Sep 9 21:14:35 2005 +0100
[PATCH] kbuild: CF=<arguments> passes arguments to sparse
Allows to add to sparse arguments without mutilating makefiles - just
pass CF=<arguments> and they will be added to CHECKFLAGS.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
- point to the sparse webpage
- use git:// instead of rsync://
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Update the sparse documentation to omit the -Wbitwise flag example (as it
is now passed by default), and document the kernel defines to enable
endianness checking.
Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The URL for Documentation/sparse is wrong now that it is in git.
Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.
Let it rip!
Ed Cashin