linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] Resolve -Wattribute-alias warnings from SYSCALL

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Message-ID: <CAK7LNASFqH7a1ZLhp_aLQXTPxODPbctVwEZ+5SL1OMp0kRQJGQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Sat, 23 Jun 2018 17:40:12 +0900
From:   Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>
To:     Paul Burton <paul.burton@...s.com>
Cc:     Linux Kbuild mailing list <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>,
        Linux-MIPS <linux-mips@...ux-mips.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] Resolve -Wattribute-alias warnings from SYSCALL_DEFINEx()

2018-06-20 5:14 GMT+09:00 Paul Burton <paul.burton@...s.com>:
> This series introduces infrastructure allowing compiler diagnostics to
> be disabled or their severity modified for specific pieces of code, with
> suitable abstractions to prevent that code from becoming tied to a
> specific compiler.
>
> This infrastructure is then used to disable the -Wattribute-alias
> warning around syscall definitions, which rely on type mismatches to
> sanitize arguments.
>
> Finally PowerPC-specific #pragma's are removed now that the generic code
> is handling this.
>
> The series takes Arnd's RFC patches & addresses the review comments they
> received. The most notable effect of this series to to avoid warnings &
> build failures caused by -Wattribute-alias when compiling the kernel
> with GCC 8.
>
> Applies cleanly atop v4.18-rc1.


Series, applied to linux-kbuild/fixes.
(since we need to fix warnings from GCC 8.1)


Thanks!



-- 
Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada