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* [PATCH v3 0/3] kbuild: remove gcc's -Wtype-limits
@ 2025-12-20 11:02 Vincent Mailhol
  2025-12-20 11:02 ` [PATCH v3 1/3] " Vincent Mailhol
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  0 siblings, 3 replies; 12+ messages in thread
From: Vincent Mailhol @ 2025-12-20 11:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Nathan Chancellor, Nicolas Schier, Nick Desaulniers,
	Bill Wendling, Justin Stitt, Maarten Lankhorst, Maxime Ripard,
	Thomas Zimmermann, David Airlie, Simona Vetter, Chris Mason,
	David Sterba, Kees Cook, Gustavo A. R. Silva
  Cc: Linus Torvalds, linux-kbuild, linux-sparse, linux-kernel, llvm,
	dri-devel, linux-btrfs, linux-hardening, Vincent Mailhol

I often read on the mailing list people saying "who cares about W=2
builds anyway?". At least I do. Not that I want to fix all of them,
but on some occasions, such as new driver submissions, I have often
found a couple valid diagnostics in the W=2 output.

That said, the annoying thing is that W=2 is heavily polluted by one
warning: -Wtype-limits. Try a gcc W=2 build on any file and see the
results for yourself. I suspect this to be the reason why so few
people are using W=2.

This series removes gcc's -Wtype-limits in an attempt to make W=2 more
useful. Those who do not use W=2 can continue to not use it if they
want. Those who, like me, use it for time to time will get an improved
experience from the reduced spam.

Patch #1 deactivates -Wtype-limits.  Extra details on statistics, past
attempts and alternatives are given in the description.

Patch #2 clean-ups the local kbuild -Wno-type-limits exceptions, while
patch #3 undoes a local workaround which silenced that warning by
uglifying the code.

Signed-off-by: Vincent Mailhol <mailhol@kernel.org>
---
Changes in v3:

  - Remove patch #4.

Link to v2: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251219-remove_wtype-limits-v2-0-2e92b3f566c5@kernel.org

Changes in v2:

  - Add two more patches to clean up some -Wtype-limits workarounds
  - Collect the Reviewed-by tags.

Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251218-remove_wtype-limits-v1-0-735417536787@kernel.org

---
Vincent Mailhol (3):
      kbuild: remove gcc's -Wtype-limits
      kbuild: cleanup local -Wno-type-limits exceptions
      overflow: Remove is_non_negative() and is_negative()

 drivers/gpu/drm/Makefile |  1 -
 fs/btrfs/Makefile        |  1 -
 include/linux/overflow.h | 10 ++--------
 scripts/Makefile.warn    |  4 +++-
 4 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
---
base-commit: 3e7f562e20ee87a25e104ef4fce557d39d62fa85
change-id: 20251205-remove_wtype-limits-c77eb46d09c2

Best regards,
-- 
Vincent Mailhol <mailhol@kernel.org>


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