linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] riscv: resolve most warnings from sparse

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Date:   Thu, 26 Sep 2019 23:29:18 +0200
From:   Luc Van Oostenryck <luc.vanoostenryck@...il.com>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:     Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@...ive.com>,
        linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] riscv: resolve most warnings from sparse

On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 10:31:42AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 01:26:38AM -0700, Paul Walmsley wrote:
> > 
> > Resolve most of the warnings emitted by sparse.  The objective here is
> > to keep arch/riscv as clean as possible with regards to sparse warnings,
> > and to maintain this bar for subsequent patches.
> 
> I think this patch does just way to many different things and needs
> to be split up into one patch per issue / code module.
> 
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/entry.h
> 
> For example adding this file should be a patch on its own.  It can
> also move to arch/riscv/kernel/ instead of polluting the <asm/*.h>
> namespace.  That being said I'm not sure I like this and the
> head.h patches.  Just adding a header for entry points used from
> aseembly only seems rather pointless, I wonder if there is a way
> to just shut up sparse on them.  Same for most of head.h.

The pseudo-specifier '__visible' (for __attribute__((__externally_visible__)))
is defined for this.

Best regards,
-- Luc Van Oostenryck