On Tue, Oct 1, 2024 at 6:06 AM Andrii Nakryiko <andrii.nakryiko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 27, 2024 at 10:22 PM Jason Xing <kerneljasonxing@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Hello Andrii, > > > > On Sat, Sep 28, 2024 at 7:08 AM Andrii Nakryiko > > <andrii.nakryiko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > On Fri, Sep 20, 2024 at 12:37 PM Jason Xing <kerneljasonxing@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > > > On Thu, Sep 19, 2024 at 11:17 PM Alexei Starovoitov > > > > <alexei.starovoitov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > On Thu, Sep 19, 2024 at 9:55 PM Jason Xing <kerneljasonxing@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > From: Jason Xing <kernelxing@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > > > > > > > > > In some environments (gcc treated as error in W=1, which is default), if we > > > > > > make -C samples/bpf/, it will be stopped because of > > > > > > "no previous prototype" error like this: > > > > > > > > > > > > ../samples/bpf/syscall_nrs.c:7:6: > > > > > > error: no previous prototype for ‘syscall_defines’ [-Werror=missing-prototypes] > > > > > > void syscall_defines(void) > > > > > > ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > > > > > > > > > samples/bpf/ doesn't accept patches any more. > > > > > If this samples/test is useful, refactor it to the test_progs framework. > > > > > Otherwise delete it. > > > > > > > > > > pw-bot: cr > > > > > > > > After reconsidering what Alexei said, I still feel we could take this > > > > patch? It is because: > > > > 1) the patch itself is more of a fix instead of optimization, > > > > 2)as long as samples/bpf exists in the kernel, we cannot easily let > > > > it(issues) go and ignore it. > > > > > > > > Applying such a patch won't cause any further confusion, right? As we > > > > can see, it's like a fix which does not introduce anything new here. > > > > > > > > What do you bpf maintainers think? > > > > > > I think it's fine to minimally fix the issue in samples/bpf, but I > > > don't think this weirdly-looking extra declaration is the best fix. > > > > Thanks for your reply. > > > > > > > > Can you mark that function static? Will that work? > > > > Not really, it will print: > > samples/bpf/syscall_nrs.c:7:13: error: ‘syscall_defines’ defined but > > not used [-Werror=unused-function] > > static void syscall_defines(void) > > ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > cc1: all warnings being treated as errors > > > > > Or, as a plan B, > > > use pragma to disable this warning, it's clearly "expected" in this > > > case. > > > > Yes, I admit the use in this function is "expected" like you said > > because this file will be converted into a .h file. Could you kindly > > show me more hints on how to disable the warning when compiling? I > > tried to remove something like "-Wmissing-prototypes", but the warning > > still happens. > > > > Grep for "#pragma GCC diagnostic ignored" uses in kernel sources. Thanks a lot! It works. Let me re-post it to "fix" this issue. Thanks, Jason
