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

From: Valdis . Kletnieks
Date: Mon Aug 01 2016 - 01:21:09 EST


On Sun, 31 Jul 2016 21:42:22 -0700, Alexei Starovoitov said:

> 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?

There's a few other cases that *aren't* the "define the array to zero
and then build the entries from a list" form.

In particular, there's still 3 odd complaints:

drivers/ata/ahci.c:
drivers/ata/ahci.h:393:16: warning: initialized field overwritten [-Woverride-in
it]
.can_queue = AHCI_MAX_CMDS - 1,

drivers/block/drbd/drbd_main.c:
drivers/block/drbd/drbd_main.c:3767:22: warning: initialized field overwritten [
-Woverride-init]
[P_RETRY_WRITE] = "retry_write",

arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c:
./arch/x86/include/asm/page_64_types.h:22:21: warning: initialized field overwri
tten [-Woverride-init]
#define DEBUG_STKSZ (PAGE_SIZE << DEBUG_STACK_ORDER)

The point of these patches is to make -Woverride-init *useful* - you'll never
spot 3 warnings in a flood of over 9,000 understood-and-ignored warnings.

Get rid of the 9,000 understood-and-ignored warnings, and then things that
probably *should* be looked at can be noticed.

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