On Fri, 2 Sep 2016, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: > On 2016-09-02 17:42:33 [+0800], kbuild test robot wrote: > > compiler: or32-linux-gcc (GCC) 4.5.1-or32-1.0rc1 > > > > >> kernel/cpu.c:1252:3: error: unknown field 'startup' specified in > > >> initializer > > >> kernel/cpu.c:1252:3: warning: missing braces around initializer > > kernel/cpu.c:1252:3: warning: (near initialization for > > 'cpuhp_bp_states[0].<anonymous>') > > >> kernel/cpu.c:1253:3: error: unknown field 'teardown' specified in > > >> initializer > > kernel/cpu.c:1425:3: error: unknown field 'startup' specified in > > initializer > > kernel/cpu.c:1425:3: warning: missing braces around initializer > > kernel/cpu.c:1425:3: warning: (near initialization for > > 'cpuhp_ap_states[121].<anonymous>') > > kernel/cpu.c:1426:3: error: unknown field 'teardown' specified in > > initializer > > This is a compiler issue. We have: > | struct cpuhp_step { > | const char *name; > | union { > | int (*startup)(unsigned int cpu); > | int (*startup_multi)(unsigned int cpu, > | void *node); > | }; > … > | }; > This unnamed union fields are valid as of ISO C11. > It seems that gcc 4.5 and earlier can't access ->startup. According to > [0] this is supported since gcc 4.6. > > [0] https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/C11Status
And we have anon unions in other places as well. See include/linux/spinlock_types.h Thanks tglx