linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5/8] riscv: add missing prototypes

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.21.9999.1910172306180.3026@viisi.sifive.com>
Date:   Thu, 17 Oct 2019 23:06:28 -0700 (PDT)
From:   Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@...ive.com>
To:     Luc Van Oostenryck <luc.vanoostenryck@...il.com>
cc:     linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/8] riscv: add missing prototypes

On Fri, 18 Oct 2019, Luc Van Oostenryck wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 05:49:26PM -0700, Paul Walmsley wrote:
> > sparse identifies these missing prototypes when building arch/riscv:
> > 
> > arch/riscv/kernel/cpu.c:149:29: warning: symbol 'cpuinfo_op' was not declared. Should it be static?
> > arch/riscv/kernel/irq.c:27:29: warning: symbol 'do_IRQ' was not declared. Should it be static?
> > arch/riscv/kernel/irq.c:57:13: warning: symbol 'init_IRQ' was not declared. Should it be static?
> > arch/riscv/kernel/syscall_table.c:15:6: warning: symbol 'sys_call_table' was not declared. Should it be static?
> > arch/riscv/kernel/time.c:15:13: warning: symbol 'time_init' was not declared. Should it be static?
> > arch/riscv/kernel/smpboot.c:135:24: warning: symbol 'smp_callin' was not declared. Should it be static?
> > arch/riscv/kernel/smp.c:72:5: warning: symbol 'setup_profiling_timer' was not declared. Should it be static?
> > arch/riscv/mm/init.c:151:7: warning: symbol 'trampoline_pg_dir' was not declared. Should it be static?
> > arch/riscv/mm/init.c:157:7: warning: symbol 'early_pg_dir' was not declared. Should it be static?
> > arch/riscv/kernel/process.c:32:6: warning: symbol 'show_regs' was not declared. Should it be static?
> > arch/riscv/kernel/ptrace.c:151:6: warning: symbol 'do_syscall_trace_enter' was not declared. Should it be static?
> > arch/riscv/kernel/ptrace.c:165:6: warning: symbol 'do_syscall_trace_exit' was not declared. Should it be static?
> > 
> > Fix by adding the missing prototypes to the appropriate header files.
> 
> For functions defined in C but used ony in assembly, you can also simply mark
> them as '__visible'  (aka __attribute__((exrernally_visible)) ).

Thanks, I'll take this suggestion.


- Paul