Since -Wmaybe-uninitialized was introduced by GCC 4.7, we have patched
various false positives:
- commit e74fc973b6e5 ("Turn off -Wmaybe-uninitialized when building
with -Os") turned off this option for -Os.
- commit 815eb71e7149 ("Kbuild: disable 'maybe-uninitialized' warning
for CONFIG_PROFILE_ALL_BRANCHES") turned off this option for
CONFIG_PROFILE_ALL_BRANCHES
- commit a76bcf557ef4 ("Kbuild: enable -Wmaybe-uninitialized warning
for "make W=1"") turned off this option for GCC < 4.9
Arnd provided more explanation in https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/3/14/903
I think this looks better by shifting the logic from Makefile to Kconfig.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Makefile | 10 +++-------
init/Kconfig | 17 +++++++++++++++++
kernel/trace/Kconfig | 1 +
3 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 1bb0535..b21aa2e3 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -656,17 +656,13 @@ KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-disable-warning, int-in-bool-context)
ifdef CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-Oz,-Os)
-KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-disable-warning,maybe-uninitialized,)
-else
-ifdef CONFIG_PROFILE_ALL_BRANCHES
-KBUILD_CFLAGS += -O2 $(call cc-disable-warning,maybe-uninitialized,)
else
KBUILD_CFLAGS += -O2
endif
-endif
-KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-ifversion, -lt, 0409, \
- $(call cc-disable-warning,maybe-uninitialized,))
+ifdef CONFIG_CC_DISABLE_WARN_MAYBE_UNINITIALIZED
+KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wno-maybe-uninitialized
+endif
# Tell gcc to never replace conditional load with a non-conditional one
KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,--param=allow-store-data-races=0)
diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index c9386a3..1f05a88 100644
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -26,6 +26,22 @@ config CLANG_VERSION
config CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO
def_bool $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/gcc-goto.sh $(CC))
+config CC_HAS_WARN_MAYBE_UNINITIALIZED
+ def_bool $(cc-option,-Wmaybe-uninitialized)
+ help
+ GCC >= 4.7 supports this option.
+
+config CC_DISABLE_WARN_MAYBE_UNINITIALIZED
+ bool
+ depends on CC_HAS_WARN_MAYBE_UNINITIALIZED
+ default CC_IS_GCC && GCC_VERSION < 40900 # unreliable for GCC < 4.9
+ help
+ GCC's -Wmaybe-uninitialized is not reliable by definition.
+ Lots of false positive warnings are produced in some cases.
+
+ If this option is enabled, -Wno-maybe-uninitialzed is passed
+ to the compiler to suppress maybe-uninitialized warnings.
+
config CONSTRUCTORS
bool
depends on !UML
@@ -1113,6 +1129,7 @@ config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE
config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
bool "Optimize for size"
+ imply CC_DISABLE_WARN_MAYBE_UNINITIALIZED # avoid false positives
help
Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to
your compiler resulting in a smaller kernel.
diff --git a/kernel/trace/Kconfig b/kernel/trace/Kconfig
index fa8b1fe..8bd1d6d 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/Kconfig
+++ b/kernel/trace/Kconfig
@@ -370,6 +370,7 @@ config PROFILE_ANNOTATED_BRANCHES
config PROFILE_ALL_BRANCHES
bool "Profile all if conditionals" if !FORTIFY_SOURCE
select TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING
+ imply CC_DISABLE_WARN_MAYBE_UNINITIALIZED # avoid false positives
help
This tracer profiles all branch conditions. Every if ()
taken in the kernel is recorded whether it hit or miss.
--
2.7.4
