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authorKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>2013-06-18 14:49:29 -0700
committerMichal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>2013-07-03 15:26:29 +0200
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coccicheck: span checks across CPUs
This adds parallelism by default to the "coccicheck" target using spatch's "-max" and "-index" arguments. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Palix <nicolas.palix@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
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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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