Re: [PATCH 2/2] drm/i915: Ensure intel_engine_init_execlist() builds with Clang

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On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 2:10 PM Nick Desaulniers
<ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 12:25 AM Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 16 Oct 2018, Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 8:35 AM Stephen Boyd <swboyd@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Quoting Jani Nikula (2018-10-16 05:29:38)
> > >> > Clang build with UBSAN enabled leads to the following build error:
> > >
> > > I'm overjoyed that you're testing this configuration! If you find more
> > > bugs, we're happy to help triage if you let us know about them here:
> > > https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues.
> >
> > Everyone, thanks for the patches/reports, reviews, and testing! These
> > two have now been pushed to drm-intel-next-queued; due to timing they're
> > expected to land upstream in the merge window for v4.21 i.e. not the
> > imminent one. (So much for the quick turnaround! ;)
> >
> > Also glad to connect you all here. :)
> >
> > So I don't mind making small concessions to Clang build such as these in
> > the interest of gaining better static analysis. Our (i915) own pre-merge
> > build testing uses primarily gcc and sparse, with a bunch of extra flags
> > (see the top of drivers/gpu/drm/i915/Makefile), but I'm not sure about
> > adding Clang to the mix anytime soon. Without a tight and constant
> > feedback loop new issues will pop up though. Maybe we'll spot inline
> > function use in constant expressions in review, maybe we don't. I'm sure
> > there are other Clang specific issues.
> >
> > Do you have any plans for setting up something like the 0day? Without
> > the feedback loop I think you'll take one step back for every two steps
> > you progress...
>
> Yes, I was in contact with Intel's 0day folks (out of Shanghai, I
> believe).  Unfortunately, the patch requiring asm-goto landed just as
> they started looking into supporting clang which really really
> derailed things.  See
> http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1804.0/00720.html where no
> one working on Clang was CC'ed about this.

Sorry, rereading that thread, that's not right.  Anyways, going to
reach out to 0day folks again once we finish of asm-goto (WIP).

>
> In the meantime, we've been focusing on arm64 and kernel-ci with
> Linaro.  More on that soon.
>
> >
> > BR,
> > Jani.
> >
> > --
> > Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Graphics Center
>
>
>
> --
> Thanks,
> ~Nick Desaulniers



-- 
Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers
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