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| author | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2017-05-12 15:56:35 -0700 |
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| committer | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2017-06-08 18:52:41 -0700 |
| commit | 41a2901e7d220875752a8c870e0b53288a578c20 (patch) | |
| tree | 7fee0c0fb4e4de059050c0003c370042bb832ffc /Documentation/dev-tools/sparse.rst | |
| parent | c4a09ff752e164c020bced6513e2008f992a02e6 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-41a2901e7d220875752a8c870e0b53288a578c20.tar.gz lwn-41a2901e7d220875752a8c870e0b53288a578c20.zip | |
rcu: Remove SPARSE_RCU_POINTER Kconfig option
The sparse-based checking for non-RCU accesses to RCU-protected pointers
has been around for a very long time, and it is now the only type of
sparse-based checking that is optional. This commit therefore makes
it unconditional.
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/dev-tools/sparse.rst')
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1 files changed, 0 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/sparse.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/sparse.rst index ffdcc97f6f5a..78aa00a604a0 100644 --- a/Documentation/dev-tools/sparse.rst +++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/sparse.rst @@ -103,9 +103,3 @@ 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. - -Checking RCU annotations -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - -RCU annotations are not checked by default. To enable RCU annotation -checks, include -DCONFIG_SPARSE_RCU_POINTER in your CF flags. |