linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: build warning after merge of the tip tree

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Date:	Fri, 28 Mar 2014 16:52:38 +1100
From:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:	linux-next@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: build warning after merge of the tip tree

Hi all,

On Thu, 6 Mar 2014 15:00:10 +1100 Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 24 Feb 2014 15:17:32 +1100 Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au> wrote:
> >
> > After merging the tip tree, today's linux-next build (arm
> > multi_v7_defconfig) produced this warning:
> > 
> > drivers/irqchip/irq-armada-370-xp.c:415:1: warning: 'externally_visible' attribute have effect only on public objects [-Wattributes]
> > drivers/irqchip/irq-sun4i.c:39:70: warning: 'externally_visible' attribute have effect only on public objects [-Wattributes]
> > drivers/irqchip/irq-sun4i.c:140:1: warning: 'externally_visible' attribute have effect only on public objects [-Wattributes]
> > drivers/irqchip/irq-gic.c:283:1: warning: 'externally_visible' attribute have effect only on public objects [-Wattributes]
> > drivers/irqchip/irq-sirfsoc.c:51:1: warning: 'externally_visible' attribute have effect only on public objects [-Wattributes]
> > drivers/irqchip/irq-vt8500.c:183:1: warning: 'externally_visible' attribute have effect only on public objects [-Wattributes]
> > 
> > Probably introduced by commit 128ea04a9885 ("lto: Make asmlinkage __visible").
> > 
> > I guess that there may be more places where "asmlinkage" is used with
> > "static" - I assume that they are all incorrect?
> > 
> > $ git grep -l 'static.*asmlinkage'
> > arch/x86/crypto/sha1_ssse3_glue.c
> > arch/x86/crypto/sha256_ssse3_glue.c
> > arch/x86/crypto/sha512_ssse3_glue.c
> > drivers/irqchip/irq-armada-370-xp.c
> > drivers/irqchip/irq-bcm2835.c
> > drivers/irqchip/irq-gic.c
> > drivers/irqchip/irq-mmp.c
> > drivers/irqchip/irq-moxart.c
> > drivers/irqchip/irq-orion.c
> > drivers/irqchip/irq-sirfsoc.c
> > drivers/irqchip/irq-sun4i.c
> > drivers/irqchip/irq-vic.c
> > drivers/irqchip/irq-vt8500.c
> > drivers/irqchip/irq-zevio.c
> > drivers/pnp/pnpbios/bioscalls.c
> > scripts/checkpatch.pl
> > 
> > (the last two don't matter)
> 
> Any resolution for this?

Ping?

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@...b.auug.org.au

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