- Oct 02, 2016
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Linus Torvalds authored
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- Sep 25, 2016
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Linus Torvalds authored
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- Sep 18, 2016
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Linus Torvalds authored
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- Sep 11, 2016
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Linus Torvalds authored
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- Sep 04, 2016
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Linus Torvalds authored
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- Aug 28, 2016
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Linus Torvalds authored
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- Aug 22, 2016
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Mauro Carvalho Chehab authored
Sphinx supports LaTeX output. Sometimes, it is interesting to call it directly, instead of also generating a PDF. As it comes for free, add a target for it. Signed-off-by:
Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> Signed-off-by:
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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- Aug 21, 2016
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Linus Torvalds authored
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- Aug 14, 2016
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Linus Torvalds authored
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- Aug 08, 2016
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Kees Cook authored
When the compiler doesn't support gcc plugins (either due to missing headers or too old a version), report the problem and abort the build instead of emitting a warning and letting the build founder with arcane compiler errors. Signed-off-by:
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
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- Aug 07, 2016
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Linus Torvalds authored
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- Aug 02, 2016
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Steven Rostedt authored
With the latest gcc compilers, they give a warning if __builtin_return_address() parameter is greater than 0. That is because if it is used by a function called by a top level function (or in the case of the kernel, by assembly), it can try to access stack frames outside the stack and crash the system. The tracing system uses __builtin_return_address() of up to 2! But it is well aware of the dangers that it may have, and has even added precautions to protect against it (see the thunk code in arch/x86/entry/thunk*.S) Linus originally added KBUILD_CFLAGS that would suppress the warning for the entire kernel, as simply adding KBUILD_CFLAGS to the tracing directory wouldn't work. The tracing directory plays a bit with the CFLAGS and requires a little more logic. This adds that special logic to only suppress the warning for the tracing directory. If it is used anywhere else outside of tracing, the warning will still be triggered. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160728223043.51996267@grimm.local.home Tested-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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- Jul 28, 2016
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Mauro Carvalho Chehab authored
Now that all media documentation was converted to Sphinx, we should get rid of the old DocBook one, as we don't want people to submit patches against the old stuff. Signed-off-by:
Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> Acked-by:
Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com> Signed-off-by:
Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
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- Jul 27, 2016
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Linus Torvalds authored
Newer versions of gcc warn about the use of __builtin_return_address() with a non-zero argument when "-Wall" is specified: kernel/trace/trace_irqsoff.c: In function ‘stop_critical_timings’: kernel/trace/trace_irqsoff.c:433:86: warning: calling ‘__builtin_return_address’ with a nonzero argument is unsafe [-Wframe-address] stop_critical_timing(CALLER_ADDR0, CALLER_ADDR1); [ .. repeats a few times for other similar cases .. ] It is true that a non-zero argument is somewhat dangerous, and we do not actually have very many uses of that in the kernel - but the ftrace code does use it, and as Stephen Rostedt says: "We are well aware of the danger of using __builtin_return_address() of > 0. In fact that's part of the reason for having the "thunk" code in x86 (See arch/x86/entry/thunk_{64,32}.S). [..] it adds extra frames when tracking irqs off sections, to prevent __builtin_return_address() from accessing bad areas. In fact the thunk_32.S states: 'Trampoline to trace irqs off. (otherwise CALLER_ADDR1 might crash)'." For now, __builtin_return_address() with a non-zero argument is the best we can do, and the warning is not helpful and can end up making people miss other warnings for real problems. So disable the frame-address warning on compilers that need it. Acked-by:
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Linus Torvalds authored
Several build configurations had already disabled this warning because it generates a lot of false positives. But some had not, and it was still enabled for "allmodconfig" builds, for example. Looking at the warnings produced, every single one I looked at was a false positive, and the warnings are frequent enough (and big enough) that they can easily hide real problems that you don't notice in the noise generated by -Wmaybe-uninitialized. The warning is good in theory, but this is a classic case of a warning that causes more problems than the warning can solve. If gcc gets better at avoiding false positives, we may be able to re-enable this warning. But as is, we're better off without it, and I want to be able to see the *real* warnings. Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- Jul 26, 2016
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Kees Cook authored
Before, the stack protector flag was sanity checked before .config had been reprocessed. This meant the build couldn't be aborted early, and only a warning could be emitted followed later by the compiler blowing up with an unknown flag. This has caused a lot of confusion over time, so this splits the flag selection from sanity checking and performs the sanity checking after the make has been restarted from a reprocessed .config, so builds can be aborted as early as possible now. Additionally moves the x86-specific sanity check to the same location, since it suffered from the same warn-then-wait-for-compiler-failure problem. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160712223043.GA11664@www.outflux.net Signed-off-by:
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Kees Cook authored
Before, the stack protector flag was sanity checked before .config had been reprocessed. This meant the build couldn't be aborted early, and only a warning could be emitted followed later by the compiler blowing up with an unknown flag. This has caused a lot of confusion over time, so this splits the flag selection from sanity checking and performs the sanity checking after the make has been restarted from a reprocessed .config, so builds can be aborted as early as possible now. Additionally moves the x86-specific sanity check to the same location, since it suffered from the same warn-then-wait-for-compiler-failure problem. Signed-off-by:
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by:
Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
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- Jul 24, 2016
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Linus Torvalds authored
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- Jul 22, 2016
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Arnd Bergmann authored
Olof's build test setup keeps failing to compile arm64 kernels because of a toolchain that uses outdated kernel headers: /work/build/batch/samples/seccomp/bpf-fancy.c:13:27: fatal error: linux/seccomp.h: No such file or directory This is of course something he could change, but it also indicates that others may run into the same problem. Running 'make headers_install' avoids the issue by ensuring that the kernel headers are put into the $(objdir)/usr/include path before we build the samples. The same problem happened for the Documentation build in the past and was fixed up with commit 8e2faea8 ("Make Documenation depend on headers_install"). This adds an identical Makefile dependency for the samples/ subdirectory. Signed-off-by:
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by:
Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
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- Jul 18, 2016
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Arnd Bergmann authored
When $(LINUXINCLUDE) is added to the cflags of a target that normall doesn't have it (e.g. HOSTCFLAGS), each entry in the list is expanded so that we search both $(objtree) and $(srctree), which is a bit silly, as we already know which of the two we want for each entry in LINUXINCLUDE. Also, a follow-up patch changes the behavior so we only look in $(srctree) for manually added include path, and that breaks finding the generated headers. This adds an explicit $(objtree) for each tree that we want to look for generated files. Signed-off-by:
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by:
Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
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Arnd Bergmann authored
arch/$(hdr-arch)/include/generated/uapi is included twice in the header search path, which is unnecessary, so this changes the top-level Makefile to drop the second instance by filtering out everything from USERINCLUDE that was already part of LINUXINCLUDE. This should have very little effect other than making the 'make V=1' output slightly smaller and making the build time faster by a miniscule amount, but it seems to be cleaner. Signed-off-by:
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by:
Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
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- Jul 10, 2016
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Linus Torvalds authored
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- Jul 04, 2016
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Linus Torvalds authored
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- Jul 01, 2016
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Jani Nikula authored
This was broken when updating the documentation targets for the Sphinx build, and moving from %docs target pattern to explicitly listed targets. Cc: Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarit.de> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com> Fixes: 22cba31b ("Documentation/sphinx: add basic working Sphinx configuration and build") Signed-off-by:
Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com> Signed-off-by:
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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- Jun 26, 2016
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Linus Torvalds authored
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- Jun 23, 2016
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Jani Nikula authored
While there's slight overlap with the DocBook help now, this can stay intact when the DocBook help goes away. Signed-off-by:
Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
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- Jun 21, 2016
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Jean Delvare authored
On openSUSE, the libelf development files are in package libelf-devel. Signed-off-by:
Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de> Acked-by:
Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-s8nyk3pyy2927sd7qp7u42oi@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by:
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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- Jun 20, 2016
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Linus Torvalds authored
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- Jun 12, 2016
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Linus Torvalds authored
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- Jun 07, 2016
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Michal Marek authored
The NOSTDINC_FLAGS variable is exported, so it needs to be cleared to avoid duplicating its content when running make from within make (e.g. in the packaging targets). This became an issue after commit 9c8fa9bc ("kbuild: fix if_change and friends to consider argument order"), which no longer ignores the duplicate options. As Paulo Zanoni points out, the LDFLAGS_vmlinux variable has the same problem. Reported-by:
"Zanoni, Paulo R" <paulo.r.zanoni@intel.com> Fixes: 9c8fa9bc ("kbuild: fix if_change and friends to consider argument order") Signed-off-by:
Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
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Emese Revfy authored
The sancov gcc plugin inserts a __sanitizer_cov_trace_pc() call at the start of basic blocks. This plugin is a helper plugin for the kcov feature. It supports all gcc versions with plugin support (from gcc-4.5 on). It is based on the gcc commit "Add fuzzing coverage support" by Dmitry Vyukov (https://gcc.gnu.org/viewcvs/gcc?limit_changes=0&view=revision&revision=231296 ). Signed-off-by:
Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com> Acked-by:
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by:
Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
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Emese Revfy authored
This patch allows to build the whole kernel with GCC plugins. It was ported from grsecurity/PaX. The infrastructure supports building out-of-tree modules and building in a separate directory. Cross-compilation is supported too. Currently the x86, arm, arm64 and uml architectures enable plugins. The directory of the gcc plugins is scripts/gcc-plugins. You can use a file or a directory there. The plugins compile with these options: * -fno-rtti: gcc is compiled with this option so the plugins must use it too * -fno-exceptions: this is inherited from gcc too * -fasynchronous-unwind-tables: this is inherited from gcc too * -ggdb: it is useful for debugging a plugin (better backtrace on internal errors) * -Wno-narrowing: to suppress warnings from gcc headers (ipa-utils.h) * -Wno-unused-variable: to suppress warnings from gcc headers (gcc_version variable, plugin-version.h) The infrastructure introduces a new Makefile target called gcc-plugins. It supports all gcc versio...
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- Jun 05, 2016
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Linus Torvalds authored
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- May 30, 2016
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Jani Nikula authored
Add basic configuration and makefile to build documentation from any .rst files under Documentation using Sphinx. For starters, there's just the placeholder index.rst. At the top level Makefile, hook Sphinx documentation targets alongside (but independent of) the DocBook toolchain, having both be run on the various 'make *docs' targets. All Sphinx processing is placed into Documentation/Makefile.sphinx. Both that and the Documentation/DocBook/Makefile are now expected to handle all the documentation targets, explicitly ignoring them if they're not relevant for that particular toolchain. The changes to the existing DocBook Makefile are kept minimal. There is graceful handling of missing Sphinx and rst2pdf (which is needed for pdf output) by checking for the tool and python module, respectively, with informative messages to the user. If the Read the Docs theme (sphinx_rtd_theme) is available, use it, but otherwise gracefully fall back to the Sphinx default theme, with an informative message to the user, and slightly less pretty HTML output. Sphinx can now handle htmldocs, pdfdocs (if rst2pdf is available), epubdocs and xmldocs targets. The output documents are written into per output type subdirectories under Documentation/output. Finally, you can pass options to sphinx-build using the SPHINXBUILD make variable. For example, 'make SPHINXOPTS=-v htmldocs' for more verbose output from Sphinx. This is based on the original work by Jonathan Corbet, but he probably wouldn't recognize this as his own anymore. Signed-off-by:
Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
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- May 29, 2016
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Linus Torvalds authored
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- May 15, 2016
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Linus Torvalds authored
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- May 11, 2016
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Arnd Bergmann authored
gcc-6 started warning by default about variables that are not used anywhere and that are marked 'const', generating many false positives in an allmodconfig build, e.g.: arch/arm/mach-davinci/board-da830-evm.c:282:20: warning: 'da830_evm_emif25_pins' defined but not used [-Wunused-const-variable=] arch/arm/plat-omap/dmtimer.c:958:34: warning: 'omap_timer_match' defined but not used [-Wunused-const-variable=] drivers/bluetooth/hci_bcm.c:625:39: warning: 'acpi_bcm_default_gpios' defined but not used [-Wunused-const-variable=] drivers/char/hw_random/omap-rng.c:92:18: warning: 'reg_map_omap4' defined but not used [-Wunused-const-variable=] drivers/devfreq/exynos/exynos5_bus.c:381:32: warning: 'exynos5_busfreq_int_pm' defined but not used [-Wunused-const-variable=] drivers/dma/mv_xor.c:1139:34: warning: 'mv_xor_dt_ids' defined but not used [-Wunused-const-variable=] This is similar to the existing -Wunused-but-set-variable warning that was added in an earlier release and that we disable by default now and only enable when W=1 is set, so it makes sense to do the same here. Once we have eliminated the majority of the warnings for both, we can put them back into the default list. We probably want this in backport kernels as well, to allow building them with gcc-6 without introducing extra warnings. Signed-off-by:
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by:
Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net> Acked-by:
Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by:
Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
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- May 10, 2016
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Arnd Bergmann authored
When gcov profiling is enabled, we see a lot of spurious warnings about possibly uninitialized variables being used: arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c: In function 'arm_coherent_iommu_map_page': arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c:1085:16: warning: 'start' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized] drivers/clk/st/clk-flexgen.c: In function 'st_of_flexgen_setup': drivers/clk/st/clk-flexgen.c:323:9: warning: 'num_parents' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized] kernel/cgroup.c: In function 'cgroup_mount': kernel/cgroup.c:2119:11: warning: 'root' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized] All of these are false positives, so it seems better to just disable the warnings whenever GCOV is enabled. Most users don't enable GCOV, and based on a prior patch, it is now also disabled for 'allmodconfig' builds, so there should be no downsides of doing this. Signed-off-by:
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by:
Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
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Arnd Bergmann authored
Enabling CONFIG_GCOV_PROFILE_ALL produces us a lot of warnings like lib/lz4/lz4hc_compress.c: In function 'lz4_compresshcctx': lib/lz4/lz4hc_compress.c:514:1: warning: the frame size of 1504 bytes is larger than 1024 bytes [-Wframe-larger-than=] After some investigation, I found that this behavior started with gcc-4.9, and opened https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=69702 . A suggested workaround for it is to use the -fno-tree-loop-im flag that turns off one of the optimization stages in gcc, so the code runs a little slower but does not use excessive amounts of stack. We could make this conditional on the gcc version, but I could not find an easy way to do this in Kbuild and the benefit would be fairly small, given that most of the gcc version in production are affected now. I'm marking this for 'stable' backports because it addresses a bug with code generation in gcc that exists in all kernel versions with the affected gcc releases. Signed-off-by:
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by:
Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by:
Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
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Arnd Bergmann authored
CONFIG_PROFILE_ALL_BRANCHES confuses gcc-5.x to the degree that it prints incorrect warnings about a lot of variables that it thinks can be used uninitialized, e.g.: i2c/busses/i2c-diolan-u2c.c: In function 'diolan_usb_xfer': i2c/busses/i2c-diolan-u2c.c:391:16: warning: 'byte' may be used uninitialized in this function iio/gyro/itg3200_core.c: In function 'itg3200_probe': iio/gyro/itg3200_core.c:213:6: warning: 'val' may be used uninitialized in this function leds/leds-lp55xx-common.c: In function 'lp55xx_update_bits': leds/leds-lp55xx-common.c:350:6: warning: 'tmp' may be used uninitialized in this function misc/bmp085.c: In function 'show_pressure': misc/bmp085.c:363:10: warning: 'pressure' may be used uninitialized in this function power/ds2782_battery.c: In function 'ds2786_get_capacity': power/ds2782_battery.c:214:17: warning: 'raw' may be used uninitialized in this function These are all false positives that either rob someone's time when trying to figure out whether they are real, or they get people to send wrong patches to shut up the warnings. Nobody normally wants to run a CONFIG_PROFILE_ALL_BRANCHES kernel in production, so disabling the whole class of warnings for this configuration has no serious downsides either. Signed-off-by:
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedtgoodmis.org> Signed-off-by:
Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
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