+/* Copyright (c) 2015 Nicira, Inc.
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+#ifndef __CHECKER__
+#error "Use this header only with sparse. It is not a correct implementation."
+#endif
+
+/* Fix sparse technicality about types in one of the function calls by just
+ * ignoring it. */
+#define __sync_add_and_fetch(a, b) (0)
+
+/* Get actual <rte_atomic.h> definitions for us to annotate and build on. */
+#include_next <rte_atomic.h>