linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] lib: make a test module with set/clear bit

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Date:   Thu, 20 Feb 2020 19:10:33 +0100
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>
Cc:     tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...hat.com, bp@...en8.de, x86@...nel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux@...musvillemoes.dk,
        andriy.shevchenko@...el.com, dan.j.williams@...el.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] lib: make a test module with set/clear bit

On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 09:37:22AM -0800, Jesse Brandeburg wrote:
> Test some bit clears/sets to make sure assembly doesn't change.
> Instruct Kbuild to build this file with extra warning level -Wextra,
> to catch new issues, and also doesn't hurt to build with C=1.
> 
> This was used to test changes to arch/x86/include/asm/bitops.h.
> 
> Recommended usage:
> make defconfig
> scripts/config -m CONFIG_TEST_BITOPS
> make modules_prepare
> make C=1 W=1 lib/test_bitops.ko
> objdump -S -d lib/test_bitops.ko

I only applied this second patch:

# sparse --version
0.6.0 (Debian: 0.6.0-3+b1)

# grep TEST_BITOPS defconfig-build/.config
CONFIG_TEST_BITOPS=m

# make C=1 W=1 O=defconfig-build/ lib/test_bitops.ko
make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux-2.6/defconfig-build'
GEN     Makefile
HOSTCC  scripts/basic/fixdep
HOSTCC  arch/x86/tools/relocs_32.o
HOSTCC  arch/x86/tools/relocs_64.o
HOSTCC  arch/x86/tools/relocs_common.o
HOSTLD  arch/x86/tools/relocs
HOSTCC  scripts/selinux/genheaders/genheaders
HOSTCC  scripts/selinux/mdp/mdp
HOSTCC  scripts/kallsyms
HOSTCC  scripts/sorttable
HOSTCC  scripts/asn1_compiler
HOSTCC  scripts/extract-cert
HOSTCC  scripts/mod/mk_elfconfig
CHECK   ../scripts/mod/empty.c
CC      scripts/mod/empty.o
MKELF   scripts/mod/elfconfig.h
HOSTCC  scripts/mod/modpost.o
CC      scripts/mod/devicetable-offsets.s
HOSTCC  scripts/mod/file2alias.o
HOSTCC  scripts/mod/sumversion.o
HOSTLD  scripts/mod/modpost
CC      kernel/bounds.s
CC      arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets.s
CALL    ../scripts/checksyscalls.sh
CALL    ../scripts/atomic/check-atomics.sh
DESCEND  objtool
HOSTCC   /usr/src/linux-2.6/defconfig-build/tools/objtool/fixdep.o
HOSTLD   /usr/src/linux-2.6/defconfig-build/tools/objtool/fixdep-in.o
LINK     /usr/src/linux-2.6/defconfig-build/tools/objtool/fixdep
CC       /usr/src/linux-2.6/defconfig-build/tools/objtool/exec-cmd.o
CC       /usr/src/linux-2.6/defconfig-build/tools/objtool/help.o
CC       /usr/src/linux-2.6/defconfig-build/tools/objtool/pager.o
CC       /usr/src/linux-2.6/defconfig-build/tools/objtool/parse-options.o
CC       /usr/src/linux-2.6/defconfig-build/tools/objtool/run-command.o
CC       /usr/src/linux-2.6/defconfig-build/tools/objtool/sigchain.o
CC       /usr/src/linux-2.6/defconfig-build/tools/objtool/subcmd-config.o
LD       /usr/src/linux-2.6/defconfig-build/tools/objtool/libsubcmd-in.o
AR       /usr/src/linux-2.6/defconfig-build/tools/objtool/libsubcmd.a
CC       /usr/src/linux-2.6/defconfig-build/tools/objtool/arch/x86/decode.o
LD       /usr/src/linux-2.6/defconfig-build/tools/objtool/arch/x86/objtool-in.o
CC       /usr/src/linux-2.6/defconfig-build/tools/objtool/builtin-check.o
CC       /usr/src/linux-2.6/defconfig-build/tools/objtool/builtin-orc.o
CC       /usr/src/linux-2.6/defconfig-build/tools/objtool/check.o
CC       /usr/src/linux-2.6/defconfig-build/tools/objtool/orc_gen.o
CC       /usr/src/linux-2.6/defconfig-build/tools/objtool/orc_dump.o
CC       /usr/src/linux-2.6/defconfig-build/tools/objtool/elf.o
CC       /usr/src/linux-2.6/defconfig-build/tools/objtool/special.o
CC       /usr/src/linux-2.6/defconfig-build/tools/objtool/objtool.o
CC       /usr/src/linux-2.6/defconfig-build/tools/objtool/libstring.o
CC       /usr/src/linux-2.6/defconfig-build/tools/objtool/libctype.o
CC       /usr/src/linux-2.6/defconfig-build/tools/objtool/str_error_r.o
LD       /usr/src/linux-2.6/defconfig-build/tools/objtool/objtool-in.o
LINK     /usr/src/linux-2.6/defconfig-build/tools/objtool/objtool
CHECK   ../lib/test_bitops.c
CC [M]  lib/test_bitops.o
MODPOST 1 modules
CC [M]  lib/test_bitops.mod.o
LD [M]  lib/test_bitops.ko
make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-2.6/defconfig-build'


No warnings for me!