linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] kbuild: Require W=1 for -Wimplicit-fallthrough with clang

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Date:   Thu, 15 Aug 2019 16:04:04 -0700
From:   Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
To:     Nathan Huckleberry <nhuck@...gle.com>
Cc:     Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>,
        Michal Marek <michal.lkml@...kovi.net>,
        Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
        Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com>,
        Linux Kbuild mailing list <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        clang-built-linux <clang-built-linux@...glegroups.com>,
        Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] kbuild: Require W=1 for -Wimplicit-fallthrough with clang

On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 3:59 PM 'Nathan Huckleberry' via Clang Built
Linux <clang-built-linux@...glegroups.com> wrote:
>
> Clang is updating to support -Wimplicit-fallthrough on C
> https://reviews.llvm.org/D64838. Since clang does not
> support the comment version of fallthrough annotations
> this update causes an additional 50k warnings. Most
> of these warnings (>49k) are duplicates from header files.
>
> This patch is intended to be reverted after the warnings
> have been cleaned up.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nathan Huckleberry <nhuck@...gle.com>
> Suggested-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@...il.com>
> Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@...il.com>
> ---
> Changes v1->v2
> * Move code to preexisting ifdef
>  scripts/Makefile.extrawarn | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.extrawarn b/scripts/Makefile.extrawarn
> index a74ce2e3c33e..95973a1ee999 100644
> --- a/scripts/Makefile.extrawarn
> +++ b/scripts/Makefile.extrawarn
> @@ -70,5 +70,6 @@ KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wno-initializer-overrides
>  KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wno-format
>  KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wno-sign-compare
>  KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wno-format-zero-length
> +KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-Wno-implicit-fallthrough)

Clang seems to support -Wno-implicit-fallthrough since 3.2.  You can
remove the cc-option, since you'll need a newer clang than that to
build the kernel.
-- 
Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers