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Date:   Thu, 29 Aug 2019 14:08:28 +1000
From:   Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
To:     Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
Cc:     Linux Next Mailing List <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: build warning after merge of the block tree

Hi all,

On Thu, 29 Aug 2019 13:51:50 +1000 Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au> wrote:
>
> After merging the block tree, today's linux-next build (x86_64
> allmodconfig) produced this warning:
> 
> In file included from include/trace/events/iocost.h:8,
>                  from <command-line>:
> include/trace/events/iocost.h:12:57: warning: 'struct ioc_now' declared inside parameter list will not be visible outside of this definition or declaration
>   TP_PROTO(struct ioc_gq *iocg, const char *path, struct ioc_now *now,
>                                                          ^~~~~~~
> include/linux/tracepoint.h:233:34: note: in definition of macro '__DECLARE_TRACE'
>   static inline void trace_##name(proto)    \
>                                   ^~~~~
> include/linux/tracepoint.h:396:24: note: in expansion of macro 'PARAMS'
>   __DECLARE_TRACE(name, PARAMS(proto), PARAMS(args),  \
>                         ^~~~~~
> include/linux/tracepoint.h:532:2: note: in expansion of macro 'DECLARE_TRACE'
>   DECLARE_TRACE(name, PARAMS(proto), PARAMS(args))
>   ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
> include/linux/tracepoint.h:532:22: note: in expansion of macro 'PARAMS'
>   DECLARE_TRACE(name, PARAMS(proto), PARAMS(args))
>                       ^~~~~~
> include/trace/events/iocost.h:10:1: note: in expansion of macro 'TRACE_EVENT'
>  TRACE_EVENT(iocost_iocg_activate,
>  ^~~~~~~~~~~
> include/trace/events/iocost.h:12:2: note: in expansion of macro 'TP_PROTO'
>   TP_PROTO(struct ioc_gq *iocg, const char *path, struct ioc_now *now,
>   ^~~~~~~~
> include/trace/events/iocost.h:12:18: warning: 'struct ioc_gq' declared inside parameter list will not be visible outside of this definition or declaration
>   TP_PROTO(struct ioc_gq *iocg, const char *path, struct ioc_now *now,
>                   ^~~~~~
> include/linux/tracepoint.h:233:34: note: in definition of macro '__DECLARE_TRACE'
>   static inline void trace_##name(proto)    \
>                                   ^~~~~
> include/linux/tracepoint.h:396:24: note: in expansion of macro 'PARAMS'
>   __DECLARE_TRACE(name, PARAMS(proto), PARAMS(args),  \
>                         ^~~~~~
> include/linux/tracepoint.h:532:2: note: in expansion of macro 'DECLARE_TRACE'
>   DECLARE_TRACE(name, PARAMS(proto), PARAMS(args))
>   ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
> include/linux/tracepoint.h:532:22: note: in expansion of macro 'PARAMS'
>   DECLARE_TRACE(name, PARAMS(proto), PARAMS(args))
>                       ^~~~~~
> include/trace/events/iocost.h:10:1: note: in expansion of macro 'TRACE_EVENT'
>  TRACE_EVENT(iocost_iocg_activate,
>  ^~~~~~~~~~~
> include/trace/events/iocost.h:12:2: note: in expansion of macro 'TP_PROTO'
>   TP_PROTO(struct ioc_gq *iocg, const char *path, struct ioc_now *now,
>   ^~~~~~~~
> 
> (and many more)
> 
> Introduced by commit
> 
>   7caa47151ab2 ("blkcg: implement blk-iocost")
> 
> To get these warnings you need to build with CONFIG_HEADER_TEST and
> CONFIG_KERNEL_HEADER_TEST (and maybe CONFIG_UAPI_HEADER_TEST).
> allmodconfig does that.

I have applied this patch to linux-next for today:

From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2019 14:03:43 +1000
Subject: [PATCH] blkcg: blk-iocost: predeclare used structs

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
---
 include/trace/events/iocost.h | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/trace/events/iocost.h b/include/trace/events/iocost.h
index ec2217dd57ac..7ecaa65b7106 100644
--- a/include/trace/events/iocost.h
+++ b/include/trace/events/iocost.h
@@ -2,6 +2,10 @@
 #undef TRACE_SYSTEM
 #define TRACE_SYSTEM iocost
 
+struct ioc;
+struct ioc_now;
+struct ioc_gq;
+
 #if !defined(_TRACE_BLK_IOCOST_H) || defined(TRACE_HEADER_MULTI_READ)
 #define _TRACE_BLK_IOCOST_H
 
-- 
2.20.1

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell

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