> With the 4.8-rc1 kernel, when I run Coccinelle check using the command “make 
> coccicheck MODE=report M=<path to directory>”,
> I get “coccicheck failed” message. I get the same failure message even with 
> “MODE=patch”
> in the command.

I noticed this error message also.

There are further software possibilities.


> I didn’t see this error message with 4.7 kernel.

I guess that a change like "enable parmap support" (from 2016-07-22) will be 
relevant
for further considerations here.
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/log/scripts/coccicheck


> However, with the 4.8-rc1 kernel, if I turn off parallelization with J=1 
> option,
> I don’t see the error message. The check seem to be running successfully,
> even though it takes longer to run. I tried J=2, J=4,…  and I got error 
> messages.
> So there seem to be a problem with J not equal to 1.

I imagine that the Coccinelle software can occasionally return inappropriate
status codes for its program implementations.
https://github.com/coccinelle/coccinelle/blob/958fcf8df0bd0e464a490b86e4f78ad4daf082d1/main.ml#L1517


> Can you please let me know how can I resolve the “coccicheck failed” message?

* Would you like to try any related command variants out for a moment?

* How do you think about to help with any more software development resources?

Regards,
Markus
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