linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Kbuild: suppress packed-not-aligned warning for default setting only

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Message-ID: <CAK7LNAQNHtvQMaOxR2BMn21RtfE9pKc+g5MnGaRO=q8RK1tuWg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 18 Jan 2018 01:12:02 +0900
From:   Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>
To:     Xiongfeng Wang <wangxiongfeng2@...wei.com>
Cc:     Michal Marek <michal.lkml@...kovi.net>,
        Linux Kbuild mailing list <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Kbuild: suppress packed-not-aligned warning for default
 setting only

2018-01-11 18:22 GMT+09:00 Xiongfeng Wang <wangxiongfeng2@...wei.com>:
> From: Xiongfeng Wang <xiongfeng.wang@...aro.org>
>
> gcc-8 reports many -Wpacked-not-aligned warnings. The below are some
> examples.
>
> ./include/linux/ceph/msgr.h:67:1: warning: alignment 1 of 'struct
> ceph_entity_addr' is less than 8 [-Wpacked-not-aligned]
>  } __attribute__ ((packed));
>
> ./include/linux/ceph/msgr.h:67:1: warning: alignment 1 of 'struct
> ceph_entity_addr' is less than 8 [-Wpacked-not-aligned]
>  } __attribute__ ((packed));
>
> ./include/linux/ceph/msgr.h:67:1: warning: alignment 1 of 'struct
> ceph_entity_addr' is less than 8 [-Wpacked-not-aligned]
>  } __attribute__ ((packed));
>
> This patch suppress this kind of warnings for default setting.
>
> Signed-off-by: Xiongfeng Wang <xiongfeng.wang@...aro.org>
> ---
>  scripts/Makefile.extrawarn | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.extrawarn b/scripts/Makefile.extrawarn
> index c6ebf42..8d53570 100644
> --- a/scripts/Makefile.extrawarn
> +++ b/scripts/Makefile.extrawarn
> @@ -11,6 +11,8 @@
>  # are not supported by all versions of the compiler
>  # ==========================================================================
>
> +KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-disable-warning, packed-not-aligned)
> +

I moved this to else case of  KBUILD_ENABLE_EXTRA_GCC_CHECKS

Please let me know if you see a problem.




-- 
Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada