gcov: disable -Wmaybe-uninitialized warning
authorArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Mon, 25 Apr 2016 15:35:31 +0000 (17:35 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 30 Sep 2016 08:18:35 +0000 (10:18 +0200)
commit e72e2dfe7c16ffbfbabf9cb24adc6d9f93a4fe37 upstream.

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>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Makefile

index d10cd096538814282062cc01fee764c9424a9177..4cd7eb14863d9d2b415e46f1338ecb22d031f21c 100644 (file)
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -368,7 +368,7 @@ AFLAGS_MODULE   =
 LDFLAGS_MODULE  =
 CFLAGS_KERNEL  =
 AFLAGS_KERNEL  =
-CFLAGS_GCOV    = -fprofile-arcs -ftest-coverage -fno-tree-loop-im
+CFLAGS_GCOV    = -fprofile-arcs -ftest-coverage -fno-tree-loop-im -Wno-maybe-uninitialized
 
 
 # Use USERINCLUDE when you must reference the UAPI directories only.