Re: [PATCH 4/4] docs: admin-guide: add IGNORE_DIRS example for cscope

[Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>]

On 5/3/26 04:14, Cheng-Han Wu wrote:
> The workload tracing guide shows how to build a cscope database by
> running cscope command directly. The kernel build system also provides
> a cscope target, which supports IGNORE_DIRS for excluding directories
> from the generated database.
> 
> Mention make cscope and show how to exclude Documentation/ as an example.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Cheng-Han Wu <hank20010209@gmail.com>
> ---
>   Documentation/admin-guide/workload-tracing.rst | 9 +++++++++
>   1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/workload-tracing.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/workload-tracing.rst
> index c49c2a00a8b8..314e5f03474e 100644
> --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/workload-tracing.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/workload-tracing.rst
> @@ -202,6 +202,15 @@ database. To get out of this mode press ctrl+d. -p option is used to
>   specify the number of file path components to display. -p10 is optimal
>   for browsing kernel sources.
>   
> +Alternatively, the kernel build system can generate the cscope database::
> +
> +  make cscope
> +
> +To exclude directories from the generated database, pass IGNORE_DIRS to
> +the cscope target. For example, to exclude Documentation/, run::
> +
> +  make IGNORE_DIRS="Documentation" cscope
> +
>   What is perf and how do we use it?
>   ==================================
>   

Looks good to me.

Reviewed-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>

thanks,
-- Shuah