coccicheck: replace --very-quiet with --quiet when debugging

When debugging (using --profile or --show-trying) you want to
avoid supressing output,  use --quiet instead. While at it, extend
documentation for SPFLAGS use.

For instance one can use:

$ export COCCI=scripts/coccinelle/misc/irqf_oneshot.cocci
$ make coccicheck DEBUG_FILE="poo.err" MODE=report SPFLAGS="--profile --show-trying" M=./drivers/mfd/arizona-irq.c

Expand Documentation/coccinelle.txt as well.

v4: expand Documentation/coccinelle.txt
v3: rebased, resolve conflicts, expand Documentation/coccinelle.txt
v2: use egrep instead of the *"=--option"* check, this doesn't work for
    disjunctions.

Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>

1 files changed, 21 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/coccicheck b/scripts/coccicheck
index 3f0bb3f0fddc5..081ba5bff79c3 100755
--- a/scripts/coccicheck
+++ b/scripts/coccicheck
@@ -32,6 +32,27 @@ fi
 
 FLAGS="--very-quiet"
 
+# You can use SPFLAGS to append extra arguments to coccicheck or override any
+# heuristics done in this file as Coccinelle accepts the last options when
+# options conflict.
+#
+# A good example for use of SPFLAGS is if you want to debug your cocci script,
+# you can for instance use the following:
+#
+# $ export COCCI=scripts/coccinelle/misc/irqf_oneshot.cocci
+# $ make coccicheck MODE=report DEBUG_FILE="all.err" SPFLAGS="--profile --show-trying" M=./drivers/mfd/arizona-irq.c
+#
+# "--show-trying" should show you what rule is being processed as it goes to
+# stdout, you do not need a debug file for that. The profile output will be
+# be sent to stdout, if you provide a DEBUG_FILE the profiling data can be
+# inspected there.
+#
+# --profile will not output if --very-quiet is used, so avoid it.
+echo $SPFLAGS | egrep -e "--profile|--show-trying" 2>&1 > /dev/null
+if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
+	FLAGS="--quiet"
+fi
+
 # spatch only allows include directories with the syntax "-I include"
 # while gcc also allows "-Iinclude" and "-include include"
 COCCIINCLUDE=${LINUXINCLUDE//-I/-I }