On 3/28/22 1:37 AM, Jiri Olsa wrote:
Arnaldo reported perf compilation fail with:
$ make -k BUILD_BPF_SKEL=1 CORESIGHT=1 PYTHON=python3
...
In file included from util/bpf_counter.c:28:
/tmp/build/perf//util/bpf_skel/bperf_leader.skel.h: In function ‘bperf_leader_bpf__assert’:
/tmp/build/perf//util/bpf_skel/bperf_leader.skel.h:351:51: error: unused parameter ‘s’ [-Werror=unused-parameter]
351 | bperf_leader_bpf__assert(struct bperf_leader_bpf *s)
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^
cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
If there's nothing to generate in the new assert function,
we will get unused 's' warn/error, adding 'unused' attribute to it.
If there is nothing to generate, should we avoid generating
the assert function itself?
Cc: Delyan Kratunov <delyank@xxxxxx>
Reported-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: 08d4dba6ae77 ("bpftool: Bpf skeletons assert type sizes")
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/bpf/bpftool/gen.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/tools/bpf/bpftool/gen.c b/tools/bpf/bpftool/gen.c
index 7ba7ff55d2ea..91af2850b505 100644
--- a/tools/bpf/bpftool/gen.c
+++ b/tools/bpf/bpftool/gen.c
@@ -477,7 +477,7 @@ static void codegen_asserts(struct bpf_object *obj, const char *obj_name)
codegen("\
\n\
__attribute__((unused)) static void \n\
- %1$s__assert(struct %1$s *s) \n\
+ %1$s__assert(struct %1$s *s __attribute__((unused))) \n\
{ \n\
#ifdef __cplusplus \n\
#define _Static_assert static_assert \n\
