checkpatch: do not apply "initialise globals to 0" check to BPF progs
BPF programs explicitly initialise global variables to 0 to make sure clang (v10 or older) do not put the variables in the common section. Skip "initialise globals to 0" check for BPF programs to elimiate error messages like: ERROR: do not initialise globals to 0 #19: FILE: samples/bpf/tracex1_kern.c:21: Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210209211954.490077-1-songliubraving@fb.comSigned-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com> Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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