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Message-ID: <CA+icZUWigJkh-VtJc4=xE06oMgE=ci2Mfdo2JaDv0fth8PKH+A@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 28 Aug 2019 09:20:21 +0200
From:   Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@...il.com>
To:     Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>
Cc:     linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org,
        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
        Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@...il.com>,
        Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Michal Marek <michal.lkml@...kovi.net>,
        Clang-Built-Linux ML <clang-built-linux@...glegroups.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] kbuild: refactor scripts/Makefile.extrawarn

On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 7:55 AM Masahiro Yamada
<yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com> wrote:
>
> Instead of the warning-[123] magic, let's accumulate compiler options
> to KBUILD_CFLAGS directly as the top Makefile does. I think this makes
> easier to understand what is going on in this file.
>
> This commit slightly changes the behavior, I think all of which are OK.
>
> [1] Currently, cc-option calls are needlessly evaluated. For example,
>       warning-3 += $(call cc-option, -Wpacked-bitfield-compat)
>     needs evaluating only when W=3, but it is actually evaluated for
>     W=1, W=2 as well. With this commit, only relevant cc-option calls
>     will be evaluated. This is a slight optimization.
>
> [2] Currently, unsupported level like W=4 is checked by:
>       $(error W=$(KBUILD_ENABLE_EXTRA_GCC_CHECKS) is unknown)
>     This will no longer be checked, but I do not think it is a big
>     deal.
>

Hi Masahiro Yamada,

thanks for your patch series.

If KBUILD_ENABLE_EXTRA_GCC_CHECKS does extra(-warning)-checks for GCC and Clang,
please rename the Kconfig into...

KBUILD_ENABLE_EXTRA_CC_CHECKS

...or something similiar (and maybe with some notes in its Kconfig help-text?).

Regards,
- Sedat -

> [3] Currently, 4 Clang warnings (Winitializer-overrides, Wformat,
>     Wsign-compare, Wformat-zero-length) are shown by any of W=1, W=2,
>     and W=3. With this commit, they will be warned only by W=1. I
>     think this is a more correct behavior since each warning belongs
>     to only one warning level.
>
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>
> ---
>
>  scripts/Makefile.extrawarn | 104 +++++++++++++++++++------------------
>  1 file changed, 53 insertions(+), 51 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.extrawarn b/scripts/Makefile.extrawarn
> index a74ce2e3c33e..1fa53968e292 100644
> --- a/scripts/Makefile.extrawarn
> +++ b/scripts/Makefile.extrawarn
> @@ -1,14 +1,6 @@
>  # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
>  # ==========================================================================
> -#
>  # make W=... settings
> -#
> -# W=1 - warnings that may be relevant and does not occur too often
> -# W=2 - warnings that occur quite often but may still be relevant
> -# W=3 - the more obscure warnings, can most likely be ignored
> -#
> -# $(call cc-option, -W...) handles gcc -W.. options which
> -# are not supported by all versions of the compiler
>  # ==========================================================================
>
>  KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-disable-warning, packed-not-aligned)
> @@ -17,58 +9,68 @@ ifeq ("$(origin W)", "command line")
>    export KBUILD_ENABLE_EXTRA_GCC_CHECKS := $(W)
>  endif
>
> -ifdef KBUILD_ENABLE_EXTRA_GCC_CHECKS
> -warning-  := $(empty)
> +#
> +# W=1 - warnings that may be relevant and does not occur too often
> +#
> +ifneq ($(findstring 1, $(KBUILD_ENABLE_EXTRA_GCC_CHECKS)),)
>
> -warning-1 := -Wextra -Wunused -Wno-unused-parameter
> -warning-1 += -Wmissing-declarations
> -warning-1 += -Wmissing-format-attribute
> -warning-1 += -Wmissing-prototypes
> -warning-1 += -Wold-style-definition
> -warning-1 += -Wmissing-include-dirs
> -warning-1 += $(call cc-option, -Wunused-but-set-variable)
> -warning-1 += $(call cc-option, -Wunused-const-variable)
> -warning-1 += $(call cc-option, -Wpacked-not-aligned)
> -warning-1 += $(call cc-option, -Wstringop-truncation)
> +KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wextra -Wunused -Wno-unused-parameter
> +KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wmissing-declarations
> +KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wmissing-format-attribute
> +KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wmissing-prototypes
> +KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wold-style-definition
> +KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wmissing-include-dirs
> +KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option, -Wunused-but-set-variable)
> +KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option, -Wunused-const-variable)
> +KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option, -Wpacked-not-aligned)
> +KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option, -Wstringop-truncation)
>  # The following turn off the warnings enabled by -Wextra
> -warning-1 += -Wno-missing-field-initializers
> -warning-1 += -Wno-sign-compare
> -
> -warning-2 += -Wcast-align
> -warning-2 += -Wdisabled-optimization
> -warning-2 += -Wnested-externs
> -warning-2 += -Wshadow
> -warning-2 += $(call cc-option, -Wlogical-op)
> -warning-2 += -Wmissing-field-initializers
> -warning-2 += -Wsign-compare
> -warning-2 += $(call cc-option, -Wmaybe-uninitialized)
> -warning-2 += $(call cc-option, -Wunused-macros)
> -
> -warning-3 := -Wbad-function-cast
> -warning-3 += -Wcast-qual
> -warning-3 += -Wconversion
> -warning-3 += -Wpacked
> -warning-3 += -Wpadded
> -warning-3 += -Wpointer-arith
> -warning-3 += -Wredundant-decls
> -warning-3 += -Wswitch-default
> -warning-3 += $(call cc-option, -Wpacked-bitfield-compat)
> -
> -warning := $(warning-$(findstring 1, $(KBUILD_ENABLE_EXTRA_GCC_CHECKS)))
> -warning += $(warning-$(findstring 2, $(KBUILD_ENABLE_EXTRA_GCC_CHECKS)))
> -warning += $(warning-$(findstring 3, $(KBUILD_ENABLE_EXTRA_GCC_CHECKS)))
> -
> -ifeq ("$(strip $(warning))","")
> -        $(error W=$(KBUILD_ENABLE_EXTRA_GCC_CHECKS) is unknown)
> -endif
> +KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wno-missing-field-initializers
> +KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wno-sign-compare
>
> -KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(warning)
>  else
>
> +# W=1 also stops suppressing some warnings
> +
>  ifdef CONFIG_CC_IS_CLANG
>  KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wno-initializer-overrides
>  KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wno-format
>  KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wno-sign-compare
>  KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wno-format-zero-length
>  endif
> +
> +endif
> +
> +#
> +# W=2 - warnings that occur quite often but may still be relevant
> +#
> +ifneq ($(findstring 2, $(KBUILD_ENABLE_EXTRA_GCC_CHECKS)),)
> +
> +KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wcast-align
> +KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wdisabled-optimization
> +KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wnested-externs
> +KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wshadow
> +KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option, -Wlogical-op)
> +KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wmissing-field-initializers
> +KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wsign-compare
> +KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option, -Wmaybe-uninitialized)
> +KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option, -Wunused-macros)
> +
> +endif
> +
> +#
> +# W=3 - the more obscure warnings, can most likely be ignored
> +#
> +ifneq ($(findstring 3, $(KBUILD_ENABLE_EXTRA_GCC_CHECKS)),)
> +
> +KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wbad-function-cast
> +KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wcast-qual
> +KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wconversion
> +KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wpacked
> +KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wpadded
> +KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wpointer-arith
> +KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wredundant-decls
> +KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wswitch-default
> +KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option, -Wpacked-bitfield-compat)
> +
>  endif
> --
> 2.17.1
>
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