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@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/sparse.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/sparse.rst index 78aa00a604a0..2f943354322c 100644 --- a/Documentation/dev-tools/sparse.rst +++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/sparse.rst @@ -103,3 +103,9 @@ recompiled, or use "make C=2" to run sparse on the files whether they need to 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. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
