linux-kernel - Noisy Sparse warnings

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Date:   Wed, 4 Apr 2018 18:05:04 -0500
From:   Steve French <smfrench@...il.com>
To:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Noisy Sparse warnings

I have been getting the following sparse warnings repeatedly on my
current Ubutu (17.10) when compiling the current mainline kernel:

./arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h:144:38: warning: Unknown escape '@'
./include/linux/string.h:239:1: error: attribute 'gnu_inline': unknown attribute

I get the same sparse error whether I use the default sparse that
Ubuntu ships (0.5.0) or the current sparse (0.5.2-rc1)

Ideas?


-- 
Thanks,

Steve