[PATCH AUTOSEL 5.3 64/87] kbuild: Do not enable -Wimplicit-fallthrough for clang for now

Sasha Levin
2019-09-24T16:44:49Z

From: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>

[ Upstream commit e2079e93f562c7f7a030eb7642017ee5eabaaa10 ]

This functionally reverts commit bfd77145f35c ("Makefile: Convert
-Wimplicit-fallthrough=3 to just -Wimplicit-fallthrough for clang").

clang enabled support for -Wimplicit-fallthrough in C in r369414 [1],
which causes a lot of warnings when building the kernel for two reasons:

1. Clang does not support the /* fall through */ comments. There seems
to be a general consensus in the LLVM community that this is not
something they want to support. Joe Perches wrote a script to convert
all of the comments to a "fallthrough" keyword that will be added to
compiler_attributes.h [2] [3], which catches the vast majority of the
comments. There doesn't appear to be any consensus in the kernel
community when to do this conversion.

2. Clang and GCC disagree about falling through to final case statements
with no content or cases that simply break:

https://godbolt.org/z/c8csDu

This difference contributes at least 50 warnings in an allyesconfig
build for x86, not considering other architectures. This difference
will need to be discussed to see which compiler is right [4] [5].

[1]: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/1e0affb6e564b7361b0aadb38805f26deff4ecfc
[2]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/61ddbb86d5e68a15e24ccb06d9b399bbf5ce2da7.camel@perches.com/
[3]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1d2830aadbe9d8151728a7df5b88528fc72a0095.1564549413.git.joe@perches.com/
[4]: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=91432
[5]: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/636

Given these two problems need discussion and coordination, do not enable
-Wimplicit-fallthrough with clang right now. Add a comment to explain
what is going on as well. This commit should be reverted once these two
issues are fully flushed out and resolved.

Suggested-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Acked-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
Makefile | 8 +++++---
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index f32e8d2e09c36..23703ecb8fdd0 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -751,6 +751,11 @@ else
# These warnings generated too much noise in a regular build.
# Use make W=1 to enable them (see scripts/Makefile.extrawarn)
KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wno-unused-but-set-variable
+
+# Warn about unmarked fall-throughs in switch statement.
+# Disabled for clang while comment to attribute conversion happens and
+# https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/636 is discussed.
+KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-Wimplicit-fallthrough,)
endif

KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-disable-warning, unused-const-variable)
@@ -845,9 +850,6 @@ NOSTDINC_FLAGS += -nostdinc -isystem $(shell $(CC) -print-file-name=include)
# warn about C99 declaration after statement
KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wdeclaration-after-statement

-# Warn about unmarked fall-throughs in switch statement.
-KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-Wimplicit-fallthrough,)
-
# Variable Length Arrays (VLAs) should not be used anywhere in the kernel
KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wvla

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2.20.1