linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] radeon: hide pointless #warning when compile testing

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Message-ID: <f5a5c1fe-bebc-90a2-0ac2-49a909c54f9c@daenzer.net>
Date:   Wed, 21 Feb 2018 17:42:42 +0100
From:   Michel Dänzer <michel@...nzer.net>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@....com>,
        Christian König <christian.koenig@....com>
Cc:     amd-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org, Cihangir Akturk <cakturk@...il.com>,
        David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
        dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        Christopher James Halse Rogers 
        <christopher.halse.rogers@...onical.com>, stable@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Julien Isorce <julien.isorce@...il.com>,
        Kent Russell <kent.russell@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] radeon: hide pointless #warning when compile testing

On 2018-02-16 04:26 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> In randconfig testing, we sometimes get this warning:
> 
> drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_object.c: In function 'radeon_bo_create':
> drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_object.c:242:2: error: #warning Please enable CONFIG_MTRR and CONFIG_X86_PAT for better performance thanks to write-combining [-Werror=cpp]
>  #warning Please enable CONFIG_MTRR and CONFIG_X86_PAT for better performance \
> 
> This is rather annoying since almost all other code produces no build-time
> output unless we have found a real bug. We already fixed this in the
> amdgpu driver in commit 31bb90f1cd08 ("drm/amdgpu: shut up #warning for
> compile testing") by adding a CONFIG_COMPILE_TEST check last year and
> agreed to do the same here, but both Michel and I then forgot about it
> until I came across the issue again now.
> 
> For stable kernels, as this is one of very few remaining randconfig
> warnings in 4.14.
> 
> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
> Link: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9550009/
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_object.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_object.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_object.c
> index 093594976126..54c2b4fc5ead 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_object.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_object.c
> @@ -238,9 +238,10 @@ int radeon_bo_create(struct radeon_device *rdev,
>  	 * may be slow
>  	 * See https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88758
>  	 */
> -
> +#ifndef CONFIG_COMPILE_TEST
>  #warning Please enable CONFIG_MTRR and CONFIG_X86_PAT for better performance \
>  	 thanks to write-combining
> +#endif
>  
>  	if (bo->flags & RADEON_GEM_GTT_WC)
>  		DRM_INFO_ONCE("Please enable CONFIG_MTRR and CONFIG_X86_PAT for "
> 

Merged on the internal amd-staging-drm-next branch, thanks!


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