linux-kernel - [PATCH] checkpatch: teach checkpatch about rcu

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Date:	Thu, 18 Nov 2010 19:05:16 +0200
From:	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
To:	Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
	Patrick Pannuto <ppannuto@...eaurora.org>,
	Wolfram Sang <w.sang@...gutronix.de>,
	Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@...fujitsu.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] checkpatch: teach checkpatch about rcu

I got this:
+       struct kvm_kernel_irq_routing_entry __rcu *irq_entry;
which is because checkpatch does not know about __rcu.
So here's a patch to teach it about that tag.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@...hat.com>
---
 scripts/checkpatch.pl |    1 +
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 2039acd..1b11c8e 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -143,6 +143,7 @@ our $Sparse	= qr{
 			__must_check|
 			__init_refok|
 			__kprobes|
+			__rcu|
 			__ref
 		}x;
 
-- 
1.7.3.2.91.g446ac
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