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diff --git a/Documentation/coccinelle.txt b/Documentation/coccinelle.txt index 64daaf18874b..2516c5ef1691 100644 --- a/Documentation/coccinelle.txt +++ b/Documentation/coccinelle.txt @@ -157,6 +157,26 @@ semantic patch as shown in the previous section. The "report" mode is the default. You can select another one with the MODE variable explained above. + Debugging Coccinelle SmPL patches +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +Using coccicheck is best as it provides in the spatch command line +include options matching the options used when we compile the kernel. +You can learn what these options are by using V=1, you could then +manually run Coccinelle with debug options added. + +Alternatively you can debug running Coccinelle against SmPL patches +by asking for stderr to be redirected to stderr, by default stderr +is redirected to /dev/null, if you'd like to capture stderr you +can specify the DEBUG_FILE="file.txt" option to coccicheck. For +instance: + + rm -f cocci.err + make coccicheck COCCI=scripts/coccinelle/free/kfree.cocci MODE=report DEBUG_FILE=cocci.err + cat cocci.err + +DEBUG_FILE support is only supported when using coccinelle >= 1.2. + Additional flags ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |