On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 11:14:42PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 11:03 PM, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fri, 16 Feb 2018 22:41:11 +0100 > > Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >> This can easily double the time for compiling a driver but does not > >> provide any benefit for the compile tester, so it's better left disabled. > >> > >> In addition, any 'inline' function that is not also 'static' and that > >> contains an 'if' causes a warning like > >> > >> include/linux/string.h:212:2: note: in expansion of macro 'if' > >> if (strscpy(p, q, p_size < q_size ? p_size : q_size) < 0) > >> ^~ > >> include/linux/compiler.h:162:4: warning: '______f' is static but declared in inline function 'strcpy' which is not static > >> > >> without this patch, and I could not come up with a nice fix for that. > >> In combination with my patch to always enable 'CONFIG_COMPILE_TEST' > >> during 'randconfig' builds, we can at least hide these warnings for > >> most users. > > > > This looks like it fixes the same issue that was already fixed and is > > in Linus's tree. > > > > http://lkml.kernel.org/r/9199446b-a141-c0c3-9678-a3f9107f2750@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > > See commit 68e76e034b6b1 ("tracing: Prevent PROFILE_ALL_BRANCHES when > > FORTIFY_SOURCE=y") > > Ah, right. I missed that when I wrote the new changelog text for this old > patch of mine. It also means I should rebase the patch so it applies > on mainline, as I still want PROFILE_ALL_BRANCHES to be disabled > in COMPILE_TEST kernels for the build speed aspect. > > Greg, could you add the 68e76e034b6b1 commit to 4.14-stable and > 4.15-stable in the meantime? It's already in 4.15, so I'll just queue it up to 4.14.y. thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
