Re: [PATCH perf 0/4] Build fixes for gcc 6

[Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>]

Em Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 07:28:51PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo escreveu:
> Em Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 11:00:50PM +0100, Markus Trippelsdorf escreveu:
> > On 2016.01.19 at 21:58 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 10:40:18PM +0100, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote:
> > > > On 2016.01.19 at 21:32 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > > > > gcc 6 warns about various things in tools/perf  and with -Werror
> > > > > these turn into build failures.  One of them is a real though not
> > > > > very serious bug.
> > > > 
> > > > I've already send patches for 1,2 and 4. See:
> > > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/12/14/460
> > > > 
> > > > Not sure what happened with them. Also your patch number 4 is wrong, you
> > > > should just delete the semicolon.
> > > 
> > > I think that the busy-wait, intentional or not, may be a necessary
> > > part of the test case.
> > 
> > Well, the author of the code thinks otherwise:
> > 
> > https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/12/14/269
> 
> Right, I saw those and I think I haven't processed them because I was
> waiting for those to be broken up in separate patches after I read
> Ingo's comment about one of them fixing up a real bug, a part that the
> original autor, mfleming even acked, could you please break it down into
> multiple patches?

Alternatively I can do it for the patch acked by Matt and use the other
patches from Ben, that even have the Fixes: tags (yay, those are
appreciated!).

- Arnaldo