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[PATCH 5/5] gcov: disable -Wmaybe-uninitialized warning

From: Peter Oberparleiter <hidden>
Date: 2016-02-15 14:35:28
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On 12.02.2016 17:06, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
When gcov profiling is enabled, we see a lot of spurious warnings about
possibly uninitialized variables being used:

arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c: In function 'arm_coherent_iommu_map_page':
arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c:1085:16: warning: 'start' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
drivers/clk/st/clk-flexgen.c: In function 'st_of_flexgen_setup':
drivers/clk/st/clk-flexgen.c:323:9: warning: 'num_parents' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
kernel/cgroup.c: In function 'cgroup_mount':
kernel/cgroup.c:2119:11: warning: 'root' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]

All of these are false positives, so it seems better to just disable
the warnings whenever GCOV is enabled. Most users don't enable GCOV,
and based on a prior patch, it is now also disabled for 'allmodconfig'
builds, so there should be no downsides of doing this.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Sounds sane.

Acked-by: Peter Oberparleiter <redacted>
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
---
 Makefile | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 6bb89728a9d1..7b6900931a47 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -364,7 +364,7 @@ AFLAGS_MODULE   =
 LDFLAGS_MODULE  =
 CFLAGS_KERNEL	=
 AFLAGS_KERNEL	=
-CFLAGS_GCOV	= -fprofile-arcs -ftest-coverage -fno-tree-loop-im
+CFLAGS_GCOV	= -fprofile-arcs -ftest-coverage -fno-tree-loop-im -Wno-maybe-uninitialized
 CFLAGS_KCOV	= -fsanitize-coverage=trace-pc

-- 
Peter Oberparleiter
Linux on z Systems Development - IBM Germany
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