scripts/checkdeclares.pl

File Facts

System

Linux kernel

Corpus path

scripts/checkdeclares.pl

Extension

.pl

Size

1123 bytes

Lines

54

Domain

Support Tooling And Documentation

Bucket

scripts

Inferred role

Support Tooling And Documentation: scripts

Status

atlas-only

Why This File Exists

Repository support layer: documentation, build tooling, samples, user-space helper tools, generated initramfs support, licenses, and validation utilities.

• Repository support layer: documentation, build tooling, samples, user-space helper tools, generated initramfs support, licenses, and validation utilities.
• Defines or uses C structs; map object ownership, embedded links, reference counts, and lock ownership.

Dependency Surface

• No C-style include directives detected by the generator.

Detected Declarations

• No top-level syscall, struct, function, initcall, or export declaration detected by the generator.

Annotated Snippet

if ($declaredstructs{$structname} > 1) {
			print "$file: struct $structname is declared more than once.\n";
			++$dup_counter;
		}
	}
}

if ($dup_counter == 0) {
	print "No duplicate struct declares found.\n";
}

Annotation

• Atlas domain: Support Tooling And Documentation / scripts.
• Implementation status: atlas-only.

Implementation Notes

• This generated page is the file-by-file coverage layer; curated subsystem chapters should link here when they synthesize a multi-file control flow.
• Core OS pages should be promoted from atlas-only to deep-reviewed when they explain data structures, invariants, locking, lifecycle, and C implementation snippets.
• Driver-family pages are intentionally pattern-oriented unless they are part of the selected PCIe/NVMe representative device path.