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-rw-r--r--Documentation/dev-tools/kcov.rst2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/dev-tools/sparse.rst6
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/kcov.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/kcov.rst
index 2c41b713841f..44886c91e112 100644
--- a/Documentation/dev-tools/kcov.rst
+++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/kcov.rst
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ Note that kcov does not aim to collect as much coverage as possible. It aims
to collect more or less stable coverage that is function of syscall inputs.
To achieve this goal it does not collect coverage in soft/hard interrupts
and instrumentation of some inherently non-deterministic parts of kernel is
-disbled (e.g. scheduler, locking).
+disabled (e.g. scheduler, locking).
Usage
-----
diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/sparse.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/sparse.rst
index 78aa00a604a0..ffdcc97f6f5a 100644
--- a/Documentation/dev-tools/sparse.rst
+++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/sparse.rst
@@ -103,3 +103,9 @@ have already built it.
The optional make variable CF can be used to pass arguments to sparse. The
build system passes -Wbitwise to sparse automatically.
+
+Checking RCU annotations
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+RCU annotations are not checked by default. To enable RCU annotation
+checks, include -DCONFIG_SPARSE_RCU_POINTER in your CF flags.
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