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@@ -91,6 +91,11 @@ To enable verbose messages set the V= variable, for example:
make coccicheck MODE=report V=1
+By default, coccicheck tries to run as parallel as possible. To change
+the parallelism, set the J= variable. For example, to run across 4 CPUs:
+
+ make coccicheck MODE=report J=4
+
Using Coccinelle with a single semantic patch
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