From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-pf0-x242.google.com (mail-pf0-x242.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400e:c00::242]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by lists.ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 417bmL3bs2zF0WP for ; Sun, 17 Jun 2018 11:11:58 +1000 (AEST) Received: by mail-pf0-x242.google.com with SMTP id a63-v6so6534193pfl.1 for ; Sat, 16 Jun 2018 18:11:58 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2018 10:11:53 +0900 From: Stafford Horne To: Paul Burton Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, Mauro Carvalho Chehab , linux-mips@linux-mips.org, Arnd Bergmann , Ingo Molnar , Matthew Wilcox , Thomas Gleixner , Douglas Anderson , Josh Poimboeuf , Andrew Morton , Matthias Kaehlcke , He Zhe , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Michal Marek , Khem Raj , Christophe Leroy , Al Viro , Gideon Israel Dsouza , Masahiro Yamada , Kees Cook , Michael Ellerman , Heiko Carstens , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Paul Mackerras , linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Resolve -Wattribute-alias warnings from SYSCALL_DEFINEx() Message-ID: <20180617011153.GA24595@lianli.shorne-pla.net> References: <20180616005323.7938-1-paul.burton@mips.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <20180616005323.7938-1-paul.burton@mips.com> List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 05:53:19PM -0700, Paul Burton wrote: > This series introduces infrastructure allowing compiler diagnostics to > be disabled or their severity modified for specific pieces of code, with > suitable abstractions to prevent that code from becoming tied to a > specific compiler. > > This infrastructure is then used to disable the -Wattribute-alias > warning around syscall definitions, which rely on type mismatches to > sanitize arguments. > > Finally PowerPC-specific #pragma's are removed now that the generic code > is handling this. > > The series takes Arnd's RFC patches & addresses the review comments they > received. The most notable effect of this series to to avoid warnings & > build failures caused by -Wattribute-alias when compiling the kernel > with GCC 8. > > Applies cleanly atop master as of 9215310cf13b ("Merge > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net"). > > Thanks, > Paul > > Arnd Bergmann (2): > kbuild: add macro for controlling warnings to linux/compiler.h > disable -Wattribute-alias warning for SYSCALL_DEFINEx() > > Paul Burton (1): > Revert "powerpc: fix build failure by disabling attribute-alias > warning in pci_32" > > arch/powerpc/kernel/pci_32.c | 4 --- > include/linux/compat.h | 8 ++++- > include/linux/compiler-gcc.h | 66 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > include/linux/compiler_types.h | 18 ++++++++++ > include/linux/syscalls.h | 4 +++ > 5 files changed, 95 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) Hello Paul, I tested the series out with the new OpenRISC 9.0.0 port and the -Wattribute-alias warnings are gone. Thank you. Using toolchain binaries from: https://github.com/stffrdhrn/gcc/releases/tag/or1k-9.0.0-20180613 For the series: Tested-by: Stafford Horne -Stafford