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authorDaniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>2022-04-26 16:10:30 +0100
committerDaniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>2022-04-27 11:49:05 +0100
commitf17c56629715199f7e520e06c01b4a46bf95c24d (patch)
tree39e6bcd88daa1913021856d04accfc558b3762b1
parent48bf8eb0107d42c158fdbaec20805f5041492ae7 (diff)
[RFC] compiler.h: Introduce CC_IS_STATIC_ANALYZER
Provide a means for code to detect and react to being compiled under a static analyzer. This is not intended for pervasive use but, in some cases, we can improve the analysis quality by making subtle changes to how some functions are declared. Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
-rw-r--r--include/linux/compiler.h12
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/compiler.h b/include/linux/compiler.h
index 0f7fd205ab7e..4e7b4861d234 100644
--- a/include/linux/compiler.h
+++ b/include/linux/compiler.h
@@ -220,6 +220,18 @@ void ftrace_likely_update(struct ftrace_likely_data *f, int val,
#define function_nocfi(x) (x)
#endif
+#ifdef __clang_analyzer__
+/*
+ * Provide a way for macros to optimize themselves for static analyzers.
+ * Currently this is limited to clang-analyzer since that's what we have
+ * support for in the kernel build.
+ *
+ * Like CONFIG_ options, this macro yields a 1 so that we can reuse the
+ * same machinery we use to handle config options in C expressions.
+ */
+#define CC_IS_STATIC_ANALYZER 1
+#endif /* __clang_analyzer__ */
+
#endif /* __KERNEL__ */
/*