From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
Stephen Rothwell <sfr@rothwell.id.au>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 5.15.y 2/4] arch: turn off -Werror for architectures with known warnings
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2026 12:57:52 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261111175746.3724675-2-sashal@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261111175746.3724675-1-sashal@kernel.org>
From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
[ Upstream commit 0f0d2871e78db648a2578abbeb9103f484f9b754 ]
A couple of architectures enable -Werror for their own files regardless of
CONFIG_WERROR but also have known warnings that fail the build with
-Wmissing-prototypes enabled by default:
arch/alpha/lib/memcpy.c:153:8: error: no previous prototype for 'memcpy' [-Werror=missing-prototypes]
arch/alpha/kernel/irq.c:96:1: error: no previous prototype for 'handle_irq' [-Werror=missing-prototypes]
arch/mips/kernel/signal.c:673:17: error: no previous prototype for ‘sys_rt_sigreturn’ [-Werror=missing-prototypes]
arch/mips/kernel/signal.c:636:17: error: no previous prototype for ‘sys_sigreturn’ [-Werror=missing-prototypes]
arch/mips/kernel/syscall.c:51:16: error: no previous prototype for ‘sysm_pipe’ [-Werror=missing-prototypes]
arch/mips/mm/fault.c:323:17: error: no previous prototype for ‘do_page_fault’ [-Werror=missing-prototypes]
arch/sparc/vdso/vma.c:246:12: warning: no previous prototype for ‘init_vdso_image’ [-Wmissing-prototypes]v
arch/sparc/vdso/vdso32/../vclock_gettime.c:343:1: warning: no previous prototype for ‘__vdso_gettimeofday_stick’ [-Wmissing-prototypes]
arch/sparc/vdso/vclock_gettime.c:343:1: warning: no previous prototype for ‘__vdso_gettimeofday_stick’ [-Wmissing-prototypes]
arch/sparc/prom/p1275.c:52:6: warning: no previous prototype for ‘prom_cif_init’ [-Wmissing-prototypes]
arch/sparc/prom/misc_64.c:165:5: warning: no previous prototype for ‘prom_get_mmu_ihandle’ [-Wmissing-prototypes]
This appears to be an artifact from the times when this architecture code
was better maintained that most device drivers and before CONFIG_WERROR
was added. Now it just gets in the way, so remove all of these.
Powerpc and x86 both still have their own Kconfig options to enable
-Werror for some of their files. These architectures are better
maintained than most and the options are easy to disable, so leave those
untouched.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/4be73872-c1f5-4c31-8201-712c19290a22@app.fastmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@rothwell.id.au>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Stable-dep-of: fe221b7b2d3e ("alpha: do not skip TLB shootdown IPIs for kthread-borrowed mms")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
arch/alpha/lib/Makefile | 1 -
arch/alpha/mm/Makefile | 2 --
arch/mips/Kbuild | 6 ------
arch/sparc/kernel/Makefile | 1 -
arch/sparc/lib/Makefile | 1 -
arch/sparc/mm/Makefile | 1 -
arch/sparc/prom/Makefile | 1 -
7 files changed, 13 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/alpha/lib/Makefile b/arch/alpha/lib/Makefile
index 1cc74f7b50efb..6a779b9018fd1 100644
--- a/arch/alpha/lib/Makefile
+++ b/arch/alpha/lib/Makefile
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@
#
asflags-y := $(KBUILD_CFLAGS)
-ccflags-y := -Werror
# Many of these routines have implementations tuned for ev6.
# Choose them iff we're targeting ev6 specifically.
diff --git a/arch/alpha/mm/Makefile b/arch/alpha/mm/Makefile
index bd770302eb824..101dbd06b4ceb 100644
--- a/arch/alpha/mm/Makefile
+++ b/arch/alpha/mm/Makefile
@@ -3,6 +3,4 @@
# Makefile for the linux alpha-specific parts of the memory manager.
#
-ccflags-y := -Werror
-
obj-y := init.o fault.o
diff --git a/arch/mips/Kbuild b/arch/mips/Kbuild
index d5d6ef9bb9867..ec088204f51cb 100644
--- a/arch/mips/Kbuild
+++ b/arch/mips/Kbuild
@@ -1,10 +1,4 @@
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
-# Fail on warnings - also for files referenced in subdirs
-# -Werror can be disabled for specific files using:
-# CFLAGS_<file.o> := -Wno-error
-ifeq ($(W),)
-subdir-ccflags-y := -Werror
-endif
# platform specific definitions
include arch/mips/Kbuild.platforms
diff --git a/arch/sparc/kernel/Makefile b/arch/sparc/kernel/Makefile
index d3a0e072ebe8c..6858304be1dbe 100644
--- a/arch/sparc/kernel/Makefile
+++ b/arch/sparc/kernel/Makefile
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@
#
asflags-y := -ansi
-ccflags-y := -Werror
extra-y := head_$(BITS).o
diff --git a/arch/sparc/lib/Makefile b/arch/sparc/lib/Makefile
index 063556fe2cb1d..59669ebddd4e1 100644
--- a/arch/sparc/lib/Makefile
+++ b/arch/sparc/lib/Makefile
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@
#
asflags-y := -ansi -DST_DIV0=0x02
-ccflags-y := -Werror
lib-$(CONFIG_SPARC32) += ashrdi3.o
lib-$(CONFIG_SPARC32) += memcpy.o memset.o
diff --git a/arch/sparc/mm/Makefile b/arch/sparc/mm/Makefile
index 871354aa3c002..809d993f6d888 100644
--- a/arch/sparc/mm/Makefile
+++ b/arch/sparc/mm/Makefile
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@
#
asflags-y := -ansi
-ccflags-y := -Werror
obj-$(CONFIG_SPARC64) += ultra.o tlb.o tsb.o
obj-y += fault_$(BITS).o
diff --git a/arch/sparc/prom/Makefile b/arch/sparc/prom/Makefile
index 397b79af77f7b..a1adc75d80551 100644
--- a/arch/sparc/prom/Makefile
+++ b/arch/sparc/prom/Makefile
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@
# Linux.
#
asflags := -ansi
-ccflags := -Werror
lib-y := bootstr_$(BITS).o
lib-y += init_$(BITS).o
--
2.53.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-11-11 17:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-11-07 11:08 FAILED: patch "[PATCH] alpha: do not skip TLB shootdown IPIs for kthread-borrowed mms" failed to apply to 5.15-stable tree Sasha Levin
2026-11-11 17:57 ` [PATCH 5.15.y 1/4] arch/alpha/kernel/smp.c: remove unnecessary (void*) conversions Sasha Levin
2026-11-11 17:57 ` Sasha Levin [this message]
2026-11-11 17:57 ` [PATCH 5.15.y 3/4] alpha: fix user-space corruption during memory compaction Sasha Levin
2026-11-11 17:57 ` [PATCH 5.15.y 4/4] alpha: do not skip TLB shootdown IPIs for kthread-borrowed mms Sasha Levin
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