Re: [PATCH v2] bpf: silence warnings when building kernel/bpf/core.c with W=1

[Alexei Starovoitov]

On Mon, Aug 01, 2016 at 12:33:30AM -0400, Valdis Kletnieks wrote:
> Building with W=1 generates some 350 lines of warnings of the form:
> 
> kernel/bpf/core.c: In function '__bpf_prog_run':
> kernel/bpf/core.c:476:33: warning: initialized field overwritten [-Woverride-init]
>    [BPF_ALU | BPF_ADD | BPF_X] = &&ALU_ADD_X,
>                                  ^~
> kernel/bpf/core.c:476:33: note: (near initialization for 'jumptable[12]')
> 
> Since they come from the way we intentionally build the table, silence
> that one specific warning.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Valdis Kletnieks <valdis.kletnieks@xxxxxx>
> 
> Version 2: Add bpf: subsystem tag to subject line
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/bpf/Makefile b/kernel/bpf/Makefile
> index eed911d091da..bb915f9d9f92 100644
> --- a/kernel/bpf/Makefile
> +++ b/kernel/bpf/Makefile
> @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
> +CFLAGS_core.o += -Wno-override-init

and at least 2 other such patches for other files...
Is there a single warning where -Woverride-init was useful?
May be worth disabling this warning for the whole build?