From: Nicolas Schier <nsc@kernel.org>
To: Askar Safin <safinaskar@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org,
Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>,
regressions@lists.linux.dev, nathan@kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com,
ojeda@kernel.org, sam@gentoo.org,
thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de, Daniel Xu <dxu@dxuuu.xyz>
Subject: Re: [REGRESSION][BISECTED] kbuild: CFLAGS=-w no longer works
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2025 10:48:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aOd27ViaWbsdwNDR@levanger> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251009075149.1083040-1-safinaskar@gmail.com>
On Thu, Oct 09, 2025 at 10:51:49AM +0300, Askar Safin wrote:
> #regzbot introduced: d1d0963121769d8d16150b913fe886e48efefa51
>
> As well as I understand, if you want to disable warnings, you
> should pass "CFLAGS=-w" to "make". Starting with d1d096312176,
> this no longer works.
>
> Steps to reproduce:
>
> $ cd linux
> $ git clean -f -q -d -x # To clean everything not controlled by git
> $ echo 'CONFIG_64BIT=y' > /tmp/minimini
> $ make allnoconfig KCONFIG_ALLCONFIG=/tmp/minimini
> $ make -j32 CFLAGS=-w
If you want to hand-over additional CFLAGS to kbuild you need to use
KCFLAGS or other variations, see Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.rst.
When I intentionally introduce a warning in e.g. init/main.c, I can
suppress the compiler warning by calling
make KCFLAGS=-w
Your log output below does not contain any warning, so I assume that you
actually want to point to something different.
[...]
> CC /rbt/linux/tools/objtool/libsubcmd/exec-cmd.o
> CC /rbt/linux/tools/objtool/libsubcmd/help.o
> CC /rbt/linux/tools/objtool/libsubcmd/pager.o
> CC /rbt/linux/tools/objtool/libsubcmd/parse-options.o
> CC /rbt/linux/tools/objtool/libsubcmd/run-command.o
> CC /rbt/linux/tools/objtool/libsubcmd/sigchain.o
> CC /rbt/linux/tools/objtool/libsubcmd/subcmd-config.o
> exec-cmd.c:2:10: fatal error: linux/compiler.h: No such file or directory
> 2 | #include <linux/compiler.h>
> | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> compilation terminated.
> make[5]: *** [/rbt/linux/tools/build/Makefile.build:86: /rbt/linux/tools/objtool/libsubcmd/exec-cmd.o] Error 1
> make[5]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> parse-options.c:2:10: fatal error: linux/compiler.h: No such file or directory
> 2 | #include <linux/compiler.h>
> | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> compilation terminated.
> make[5]: *** [/rbt/linux/tools/build/Makefile.build:86: /rbt/linux/tools/objtool/libsubcmd/parse-options.o] Error 1
> In file included from sigchain.c:3:
> subcmd-util.h:8:10: fatal error: linux/compiler.h: No such file or directory
> 8 | #include <linux/compiler.h>
> | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> compilation terminated.
> make[5]: *** [/rbt/linux/tools/build/Makefile.build:86: /rbt/linux/tools/objtool/libsubcmd/sigchain.o] Error 1
> MKELF scripts/mod/elfconfig.h
> In file included from help.c:12:
> subcmd-util.h:8:10: fatal error: linux/compiler.h: No such file or directory
> 8 | #include <linux/compiler.h>
> | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> compilation terminated.
> HOSTCC scripts/mod/modpost.o
> make[5]: *** [/rbt/linux/tools/build/Makefile.build:85: /rbt/linux/tools/objtool/libsubcmd/help.o] Error 1
> HOSTCC scripts/mod/sumversion.o
> In file included from run-command.c:11:
> subcmd-util.h:8:10: fatal error: linux/compiler.h: No such file or directory
> 8 | #include <linux/compiler.h>
> | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> compilation terminated.
> HOSTCC scripts/mod/symsearch.o
> make[5]: *** [/rbt/linux/tools/build/Makefile.build:85: /rbt/linux/tools/objtool/libsubcmd/run-command.o] Error 1
> UPD scripts/mod/devicetable-offsets.h
> HOSTCC scripts/mod/file2alias.o
> make[4]: *** [Makefile:78: /rbt/linux/tools/objtool/libsubcmd/libsubcmd-in.o] Error 2
> make[3]: *** [Makefile:83: /rbt/linux/tools/objtool/libsubcmd/libsubcmd.a] Error 2
> make[2]: *** [Makefile:73: objtool] Error 2
> make[1]: *** [/rbt/linux/Makefile:1430: tools/objtool] Error 2
> make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
This is reproducible on my machine:
make -C tools objtool CFLAGS=-w
But is doesn't matter which CFLAGS you add here, as they overwrite
objtool's include paths.
According to tools/build/Documentation/Build.txt you should use
different variables for everything below tools/, e.g.:
make -C tools objtool CFLAGS_objtool=-w
Does this help for your specific issue?
Kind regards,
Nicolas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-10-09 8:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-10-09 7:51 [REGRESSION][BISECTED] kbuild: CFLAGS=-w no longer works Askar Safin
2025-10-09 8:02 ` Askar Safin
2025-10-09 8:48 ` Nicolas Schier [this message]
2025-10-15 2:55 ` Askar Safin
2025-10-09 17:41 ` Nathan Chancellor
2025-12-03 20:05 ` Askar Safin
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