linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] selftests/lib.mk: silence some clang warnings that gcc already ignores

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Date: Thu, 30 May 2024 08:25:18 -0600
From: Shuah Khan <skhan@...uxfoundation.org>
To: John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>, Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>
Cc: Beau Belgrave <beaub@...ux.microsoft.com>,
 Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>, Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>,
 Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@...aro.org>,
 Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
 Justin Stitt <justinstitt@...gle.com>, Bill Wendling <morbo@...gle.com>,
 sunliming <sunliming@...inos.cn>, Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>,
 Valentin Obst <kernel@...entinobst.de>, linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org,
 LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, llvm@...ts.linux.dev,
 Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>, Shuah Khan <skhan@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] selftests/lib.mk: silence some clang warnings that
 gcc already ignores

On 5/28/24 20:08, John Hubbard wrote:
> gcc defaults to silence (off) for the following warnings, but clang
> defaults to the opposite. These warnings are not useful for kselftests,
> so silence them for the clang builds as well:

Please you add more information on why they aren't useful
for kselftests.

> 
>      -Wno-address-of-packed-member
>      -Wno-gnu-variable-sized-type-not-at-end
> 
> This eliminates warnings for the net/ and user_events/ kselftest
> subsystems, in these files:
> 
>      ./net/af_unix/scm_rights.c
>      ./net/timestamping.c
>      ./net/ipsec.c
>      ./user_events/perf_test.c
> 
> Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>
> Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>
> ---
>   tools/testing/selftests/lib.mk | 6 ++++++
>   1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/lib.mk b/tools/testing/selftests/lib.mk
> index 2902787b89b2..41e879f3f8a2 100644
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/lib.mk
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/lib.mk
> @@ -50,6 +50,12 @@ else
>   CLANG_FLAGS     += --target=$(notdir $(CROSS_COMPILE:%-=%))
>   endif # CROSS_COMPILE
>   
> +# gcc defaults to silence (off) for the following warnings, but clang defaults
> +# to the opposite. These warnings are not useful for kselftests, so silence them
> +# for the clang builds as well.
> +CFLAGS += -Wno-address-of-packed-member
> +CFLAGS += -Wno-gnu-variable-sized-type-not-at-end
> +
>   CC := $(CLANG) $(CLANG_FLAGS) -fintegrated-as
>   else
>   CC := $(CROSS_COMPILE)gcc

thanks,
-- Shuah