On Fri, Aug 3, 2018 at 6:43 PM, Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 03, 2018 at 05:09:45PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: >> On Fri, Aug 03, 2018 at 04:59:18PM +0200, Andrey Konovalov wrote: >> > Started looking at this. When I run sparse with default checks enabled >> > (make C=1) I get countless warnings. Does anybody actually use it? >> >> Try using a more up-to-date version of sparse. Odds are you are using >> an old one, there is a newer version in a different branch on kernel.org >> somewhere... > > That's not true. Building the current version of sparse from > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/devel/sparse/sparse.git leaves me with a > thousand errors just building the mm/ directory. A sample: I'm running the one from https://github.com/lucvoo/sparse-dev which seems to be even more up to date. Defconfig on x86 gives me ~3000 warnings: https://gist.github.com/xairy/8adace989f64462e18ffb5cb7d096b73
