linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Enable '-Werror' by default for all kernel builds

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Date:   Thu, 9 Sep 2021 06:58:13 +0100
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com>
Cc:     Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>,
        Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...nel.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        llvm@...ts.linux.dev, Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
        Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@...ive.com>,
        Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...belt.com>,
        Albert Ou <aou@...s.berkeley.edu>,
        linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org,
        Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@...il.com>,
        Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>,
        Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
        Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...il.com>,
        kasan-dev@...glegroups.com,
        Christian König <christian.koenig@....com>,
        "Pan, Xinhui" <Xinhui.Pan@....com>, amd-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Enable '-Werror' by default for all kernel builds

On Wed, Sep 08, 2021 at 11:58:56PM +0200, Marco Elver wrote:
> It'd be good to avoid. It has helped uncover build issues with KASAN in
> the past. Or at least make it dependent on the problematic architecture.
> For example if arm is a problem, something like this:

I'm also seeing quite a few stack size warnings with KASAN on x86_64
without COMPILT_TEST using gcc 10.2.1 from Debian.  In fact there are a
few warnings without KASAN, but with KASAN there are a lot more.
I'll try to find some time to dig into them.

While we're at it, with -Werror something like this is really futile:

drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_object.c: In function ‘amdgpu_bo_support_uswc’:
drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_object.c:493:2: warning: #warning
Please enable CONFIG_MTRR and CONFIG_X86_PAT for better performance thanks to write-combining [-Wcpp
  493 | #warning Please enable CONFIG_MTRR and CONFIG_X86_PAT for better performance \
      |  ^~~~~~~