Re: [PATCH v2] drm/i915: Clean up disabled warnings

[Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com>]

On Tue, 14 Sep 2021, Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> wrote:
> i915 enables a wider set of warnings with '-Wall -Wextra' then disables
> several with cc-disable-warning. If an unknown flag gets added to
> KBUILD_CFLAGS when building with clang, all subsequent calls to
> cc-{disable-warning,option} will fail, meaning that all of these
> warnings do not get disabled [1].
>
> A separate series will address the root cause of the issue by not adding
> these flags when building with clang [2]; however, the symptom of these
> extra warnings appearing can be addressed separately by just removing
> the calls to cc-disable-warning, which makes the build ever so slightly
> faster because the compiler does not need to be called as much before
> building.
>
> The following warnings are supported by GCC 4.9 and clang 10.0.1, which
> are the minimum supported versions of these compilers so the call to
> cc-disable-warning is not necessary. Masahiro cleaned this up for the
> reset of the kernel in commit 4c8dd95a723d ("kbuild: add some extra
> warning flags unconditionally").
>
> * -Wmissing-field-initializers
> * -Wsign-compare
> * -Wtype-limits
> * -Wunused-parameter
>
> -Wunused-but-set-variable was implemented in clang 13.0.0 and
> -Wframe-address was implemented in clang 12.0.0 so the
> cc-disable-warning calls are kept for these two warnings.
>
> Lastly, -Winitializer-overrides is clang's version of -Woverride-init,
> which is disabled for the specific files that are problematic. clang
> added a compatibility alias in clang 8.0.0 so -Winitializer-overrides
> can be removed.
>
> [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/r/202108210311.CBtcgoUL-lkp@intel.com/
> [2]: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210824022640.2170859-1-nathan@kernel.org/
>
> Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
> Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>

Thanks for the patch, and sorry for the delay.

Exceptionally pushed to drm-intel-gt-next instead of drm-intel-next
because some of the dependencies such as 43192617f781 ("drm/i915: Enable
-Wsometimes-uninitialized") were queued there too.


BR,
Jani.


> ---
>
> v1 -> v2: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210824232237.2085342-1-nathan@kernel.org/
>
> * Rebase on drm-intel-gt-next now that the prerequisite patch series has
>   been merged: https://lore.kernel.org/r/87wnnj13t5.fsf@intel.com/
>
> * Add Nick's reviewed-by tag.
>
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/Makefile | 10 ++++------
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/Makefile b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/Makefile
> index c584188aa15a..fd99374583d5 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/Makefile
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/Makefile
> @@ -13,13 +13,11 @@
>  # will most likely get a sudden build breakage... Hopefully we will fix
>  # new warnings before CI updates!
>  subdir-ccflags-y := -Wall -Wextra
> -subdir-ccflags-y += $(call cc-disable-warning, unused-parameter)
> -subdir-ccflags-y += $(call cc-disable-warning, type-limits)
> -subdir-ccflags-y += $(call cc-disable-warning, missing-field-initializers)
> +subdir-ccflags-y += -Wno-unused-parameter
> +subdir-ccflags-y += -Wno-type-limits
> +subdir-ccflags-y += -Wno-missing-field-initializers
> +subdir-ccflags-y += -Wno-sign-compare
>  subdir-ccflags-y += $(call cc-disable-warning, unused-but-set-variable)
> -# clang warnings
> -subdir-ccflags-y += $(call cc-disable-warning, sign-compare)
> -subdir-ccflags-y += $(call cc-disable-warning, initializer-overrides)
>  subdir-ccflags-y += $(call cc-disable-warning, frame-address)
>  subdir-ccflags-$(CONFIG_DRM_I915_WERROR) += -Werror
>  
>
> base-commit: 43192617f7816bb74584c1df06f57363afd15337

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Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Graphics Center