[x86] warning: parameter has incomplete type

[x86] warning: parameter has incomplete type

[Tetsuo Handa]

Hello.

Is there a patch to suppress below warning messages (which are printed for every
file when compiling kernel using gcc 3.3.5)?

Regards.
--------------------
# cat ~/warn.sh
#! /bin/sh
make -s oldconfig
touch init/main.c
make init/main.o > /tmp/log 2>&1
grep -qF "warning: parameter has incomplete type" /tmp/log && exit 1
exit 0
# git bisect start next-20090227 v2.6.29-rc6 --
Bisecting: 4206 revisions left to test after this
[617e8ed824f58c467b97d3c08ad3fc46efc9041c] Merge commit 'kvm/master'
# git bisect run ~/warn.sh
running /root/warn.sh
#
# configuration written to .config
#
In file included from /usr/src/all/linux-next/arch/x86/include/asm/page.h:8,
                 from /usr/src/all/linux-next/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h:18,
                 from /usr/src/all/linux-next/arch/x86/include/asm/atomic_32.h:6,
                 from /usr/src/all/linux-next/arch/x86/include/asm/atomic.h:2,
                 from include/linux/crypto.h:20,
                 from arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets_32.c:7,
                 from arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets.c:2:
/usr/src/all/linux-next/arch/x86/include/asm/page_types.h:54: warning: parameter has incomplete type
/usr/src/all/linux-next/arch/x86/include/asm/page_types.h:56: warning: parameter has incomplete type
In file included from /usr/src/all/linux-next/arch/x86/include/asm/page.h:8,
                 from /usr/src/all/linux-next/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h:18,
                 from include/linux/prefetch.h:14,
                 from include/linux/list.h:6,
                 from include/linux/module.h:9,
                 from init/main.c:13:
/usr/src/all/linux-next/arch/x86/include/asm/page_types.h:54: warning: parameter has incomplete type
/usr/src/all/linux-next/arch/x86/include/asm/page_types.h:56: warning: parameter has incomplete type
(... snipped ...)
Bisecting: 0 revisions left to test after this
[e2f5bda94152fa567f6b48126741014123f982b8] x86: define pud_flags and pud_large properly to allow non-PAE builds
running /root/warn.sh
#
# configuration written to .config
#
54321d947ae9d6a051b81e3eccaf2d8658aeecc6 is first bad commit
commit 54321d947ae9d6a051b81e3eccaf2d8658aeecc6
Author: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Date:   Wed Feb 11 10:20:05 2009 -0800

    x86: move pte types into pgtable*.h

    pgtable*.h is intended for definitions relating to actual pagetables
    and their entries, so move all the definitions for
    (pte|pmd|pud|pgd)(val)?_t to the appropriate pgtable*.h headers.

    Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>

:040000 040000 b7eda528704700c2e053ba659b4b6823d044d741 f169afe254054f023240ccc371def6774385e742 M      arch
bisect run success

Re: [x86] warning: parameter has incomplete type

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge]

Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> Hello.
>
> Is there a patch to suppress below warning messages (which are printed for every
> file when compiling kernel using gcc 3.3.5)?
>   

Hm, that's a very old compiler.  The warning is correct, I guess, but of 
no consequence.  It would be impossible to call the functions without a 
proper definition of the structure in scope, and the structure 
forward-declaration guarantees that the prototype and the eventual 
structure definition will be the same.

The simple fix, include pgtable_types.h, is undesireable because we're 
trying to untangle the headers rather than add more interdependencies.  
I think the fix is to put those prototypes somewhere else (asm/pat.h, 
perhaps?).

    J
> Regards.
> --------------------
> # cat ~/warn.sh
> #! /bin/sh
> make -s oldconfig
> touch init/main.c
> make init/main.o > /tmp/log 2>&1
> grep -qF "warning: parameter has incomplete type" /tmp/log && exit 1
> exit 0
> # git bisect start next-20090227 v2.6.29-rc6 --
> Bisecting: 4206 revisions left to test after this
> [617e8ed824f58c467b97d3c08ad3fc46efc9041c] Merge commit 'kvm/master'
> # git bisect run ~/warn.sh
> running /root/warn.sh
> #
> # configuration written to .config
> #
> In file included from /usr/src/all/linux-next/arch/x86/include/asm/page.h:8,
>                  from /usr/src/all/linux-next/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h:18,
>                  from /usr/src/all/linux-next/arch/x86/include/asm/atomic_32.h:6,
>                  from /usr/src/all/linux-next/arch/x86/include/asm/atomic.h:2,
>                  from include/linux/crypto.h:20,
>                  from arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets_32.c:7,
>                  from arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets.c:2:
> /usr/src/all/linux-next/arch/x86/include/asm/page_types.h:54: warning: parameter has incomplete type
> /usr/src/all/linux-next/arch/x86/include/asm/page_types.h:56: warning: parameter has incomplete type
> In file included from /usr/src/all/linux-next/arch/x86/include/asm/page.h:8,
>                  from /usr/src/all/linux-next/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h:18,
>                  from include/linux/prefetch.h:14,
>                  from include/linux/list.h:6,
>                  from include/linux/module.h:9,
>                  from init/main.c:13:
> /usr/src/all/linux-next/arch/x86/include/asm/page_types.h:54: warning: parameter has incomplete type
> /usr/src/all/linux-next/arch/x86/include/asm/page_types.h:56: warning: parameter has incomplete type
> (... snipped ...)
> Bisecting: 0 revisions left to test after this
> [e2f5bda94152fa567f6b48126741014123f982b8] x86: define pud_flags and pud_large properly to allow non-PAE builds
> running /root/warn.sh
> #
> # configuration written to .config
> #
> 54321d947ae9d6a051b81e3eccaf2d8658aeecc6 is first bad commit
> commit 54321d947ae9d6a051b81e3eccaf2d8658aeecc6
> Author: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
> Date:   Wed Feb 11 10:20:05 2009 -0800
>
>     x86: move pte types into pgtable*.h
>
>     pgtable*.h is intended for definitions relating to actual pagetables
>     and their entries, so move all the definitions for
>     (pte|pmd|pud|pgd)(val)?_t to the appropriate pgtable*.h headers.
>
>     Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
>
> :040000 040000 b7eda528704700c2e053ba659b4b6823d044d741 f169afe254054f023240ccc371def6774385e742 M      arch
> bisect run success
>