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From: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	x86@kernel.org, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>,
	Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>,
	Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>, Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: kvm: avoid -Wshadow warning in header
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2020 10:04:32 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201028170430.GC7584@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201026161512.3708919-1-arnd@kernel.org>

On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 05:14:39PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> 
> There are hundreds of warnings in a W=2 build about a local
> variable shadowing the global 'apic' definition:
> 
> arch/x86/kvm/lapic.h:149:65: warning: declaration of 'apic' shadows a global declaration [-Wshadow]
> 
> Avoid this by renaming the local in the kvm/lapic.h header

Rather than change KVM, and presumably other files as well, e.g. kvm/lapic.c and
apic/io_apic.c also shadow 'apic' all over the place, what about renaming the
global 'apic' to something more unique?  KVM aside, using such a common name for
a global variable has always struck me as a bit odd/dangerous/confusing.

  reply	other threads:[~2020-10-28 22:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-26 16:14 [PATCH] x86: kvm: avoid -Wshadow warning in header Arnd Bergmann
2020-10-28 17:04 ` Sean Christopherson [this message]
2020-10-28 18:31   ` Arnd Bergmann

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