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diff --git a/contrib/coccinelle/README b/contrib/coccinelle/README index 09ea8298e1..09b72bfd4e 100644 --- a/contrib/coccinelle/README +++ b/contrib/coccinelle/README @@ -57,3 +57,16 @@ Git-specific tips & things to know about how we run "spatch": To disable this behavior use the "SPATCH_USE_O_DEPENDENCIES=NoThanks" flag. + + * To speed up our rules the "make coccicheck" target will by default + concatenate all of the *.cocci files here into an "ALL.cocci", and + apply it to each source file. + + This makes the run faster, as we don't need to run each rule + against each source file. See the Makefile for further discussion, + this behavior can be disabled with "SPATCH_CONCAT_COCCI=". + + But since they're concatenated any <id> in the <rulname> (e.g. "@ + my_name", v.s. anonymous "@@") needs to be unique across all our + *.cocci files. You should only need to name rules if other rules + depend on them (currently only one rule is named). |