Hi, On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 10:59 PM Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 11:00 PM Andi Kleen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > From: Andi Kleen <[email protected]> > > > > This warning is very noisy in a default build with gcc 9. > > Move it into W=2 only. > > > > Cc: [email protected] > > Cc: Masahiro Yamada <[email protected]> > > Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <[email protected]> > > I think W=2 is too aggressive. On many architectures, this finds > real bugs and the false positives tend to be trivial to fix > (by removing the bogus __packed annotation), which improves > the generated code in the process. > > Moving it to W=1 for the moment is probably fine, but ideally > I think we should fix the kernel to behave according to the > C standard. > > Arnd
I agree to disable this warning option since we see a lot of instances. The room of argument is W=1 or W=2? I do not have a strong opinion either way. Arnd most actively takes care of warnings like this. If he looks into these warnings, W=1 is fine with me. -- Best Regards Masahiro Yamada
