4.14-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Jiri Olsa <jo...@kernel.org>
commit b7a313d84e853049062011d78cb04b6decd12f5c upstream.
The gcc 8 compiler won't compile the python extension code with the
following errors (one example):
python.c:830:15: error: cast between incompatible function types from
\
‘PyObject * (*)(struct pyrf_evsel *, PyObject *, PyObject *)’
\
uct _object * (*)(struct pyrf_evsel *, struct _object *, struct _object *)’}
to \
‘PyObject * (*)(PyObject *, PyObject *)’ {aka ‘struct _object * (*)(struct
_objeuct \
_object *)’} [-Werror=cast-function-type]
.ml_meth = (PyCFunction)pyrf_evsel__open,
The problem with the PyMethodDef::ml_meth callback is that its type is
determined based on the PyMethodDef::ml_flags value, which we set as
METH_VARARGS | METH_KEYWORDS.
That indicates that the callback is expecting an extra PyObject* arg, and is
actually PyCFunctionWithKeywords type, but the base PyMethodDef::ml_meth type
stays PyCFunction.
Previous gccs did not find this, gcc8 now does. Fixing this by silencing this
warning for python.c build.
Commiter notes:
Do not do that for CC=clang, as it breaks the build in some clang
versions, like the ones in fedora up to fedora27:
fedora:25:error: unknown warning option '-Wno-cast-function-type'; did you
mean '-Wno-bad-function-cast'? [-Werror,-Wunknown-warning-option]
fedora:26:error: unknown warning option '-Wno-cast-function-type'; did you
mean '-Wno-bad-function-cast'? [-Werror,-Wunknown-warning-option]
fedora:27:error: unknown warning option '-Wno-cast-function-type'; did you
mean '-Wno-bad-function-cast'? [-Werror,-Wunknown-warning-option]
#
those have:
clang version 3.9.1 (tags/RELEASE_391/final)
The one in rawhide accepts that:
clang version 6.0.0 (tags/RELEASE_600/final)
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jo...@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <a...@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shish...@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsah...@gmail.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoim...@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhy...@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.w...@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180319082902.4518-2-jo...@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <a...@redhat.com>
Cc: Ignat Korchagin <ig...@cloudflare.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>
---
tools/perf/util/setup.py | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
--- a/tools/perf/util/setup.py
+++ b/tools/perf/util/setup.py
@@ -28,6 +28,8 @@ class install_lib(_install_lib):
cflags = getenv('CFLAGS', '').split()
# switch off several checks (need to be at the end of cflags list)
cflags += ['-fno-strict-aliasing', '-Wno-write-strings',
'-Wno-unused-parameter' ]
+if cc != "clang":
+ cflags += ['-Wno-cast-function-type' ]
src_perf = getenv('srctree') + '/tools/perf'
build_lib = getenv('PYTHON_EXTBUILD_LIB')
