sparse: define dummy BUILD_BUG_ON definition for sparse

BUILD_BUG_ON() causes a syntax error to detect coding errors.  So it
causes sparse to detect an error too.  This reduces sparse's usefulness.

This patch makes a dummy BUILD_BUG_ON() definition for sparse.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/include/linux/kernel.h b/include/linux/kernel.h
index f37ba716ef8b7fe81f73a586289286a879404609..22295244de18d55335326628596b34c8ebbf7019 100644 (file)
--- a/include/linux/kernel.h
+++ b/include/linux/kernel.h
@@ -638,6 +638,13 @@ struct sysinfo {
        char _f[20-2*sizeof(long)-sizeof(int)]; /* Padding: libc5 uses this.. */
 };
 
+#ifdef __CHECKER__
+#define BUILD_BUG_ON_NOT_POWER_OF_2(n)
+#define BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO(e)
+#define BUILD_BUG_ON_NULL(e)
+#define BUILD_BUG_ON(condition)
+#else /* __CHECKER__ */
+
 /* Force a compilation error if a constant expression is not a power of 2 */
 #define BUILD_BUG_ON_NOT_POWER_OF_2(n)                 \
        BUILD_BUG_ON((n) == 0 || (((n) & ((n) - 1)) != 0))
@@ -674,6 +681,7 @@ extern int __build_bug_on_failed;
                if (condition) __build_bug_on_failed = 1;       \
        } while(0)
 #endif
+#endif /* __CHECKER__ */
 
 /* Trap pasters of __FUNCTION__ at compile-time */
 #define __FUNCTION__ (__func__)