* Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]> wrote:
> The use of bitfields seems to confuse gcc, leading to a false-positive
> warning in all compiler versions:
>
> kernel/time/tick-sched.c: In function 'tick_nohz_idle_exit':
> kernel/time/tick-sched.c:538:2: error: 'now' may be used uninitialized in
> this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
>
> This introduces a temporary variable to track the flags so gcc
> doesn't have to evaluate twice, eliminating the code path that
> leads to the warning.
>
> Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=85301
> Fixes: 1cae544d42d2 ("nohz: Gather tick_sched booleans under a common flag
> field")
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
Which tree is this against? There's no such commit either in -tip, upstream or
in
-next AFAICS.
Thanks,
Ingo
