linux-kernel - Re: arm64: kernel/sys.c - silence initialization warnings.

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Date:   Mon, 15 Mar 2021 19:23:00 +0000
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
Cc:     Valdis Kl??tnieks <valdis.kletnieks@...edu>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: arm64: kernel/sys.c - silence initialization warnings.

On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 11:14:34AM +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> We do similar initialisation in arch/arm64/kernel/sys32.c and
> arch/arm64/kernel/traps.c for example. It's a pretty common pattern
> throughout the kernel.
> 
> So we either treat W=1 output as diff against the vanilla kernel when
> checking new patches or we remove override-init altogether from W=1.
> Mark Rutland pointed me to an older thread:

Please just remove the override-init warning, it is not helpful at all.