Re: [PATCH] maple_tree: Fix build failure with W=1 and LLVM=1

From: Kuan-Wei Chiu
Date: Fri May 03 2024 - 09:01:23 EST


On Fri, May 03, 2024 at 01:20:32PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Fri, May 03, 2024 at 05:50:27PM +0800, Kuan-Wei Chiu wrote:
> > When compiling library code using "make W=1 LLVM=1 lib/", clang
> > generated the following compilation errors:
> >
> > lib/maple_tree.c:351:21: error: unused function 'mte_set_full' [-Werror,-Wunused-function]
> > static inline void *mte_set_full(const struct maple_enode *node)
>
> Uh, clang is wrong to flag these as an error. They're just not used
> yet.

I think it's because the kernel defaults to treating all compilation
warnings as errors. If you turn off the option to treat compilation
warnings as errors, they will be treated as warnings instead. Should I
update my commit message to change compilation errors to compilation
warnings?

Regards,
Kuan-Wei