On 9/22/18 8:29 PM, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
Clang warns when two declarations' section attributes don't match.
net/rds/ib_stats.c:40:1: warning: section does not match previous
declaration [-Wsection]
DEFINE_PER_CPU_SHARED_ALIGNED(struct rds_ib_statistics, rds_ib_stats);
^
./include/linux/percpu-defs.h:142:2: note: expanded from macro
'DEFINE_PER_CPU_SHARED_ALIGNED'
DEFINE_PER_CPU_SECTION(type, name,
PER_CPU_SHARED_ALIGNED_SECTION) \
^
./include/linux/percpu-defs.h:93:9: note: expanded from macro
'DEFINE_PER_CPU_SECTION'
extern __PCPU_ATTRS(sec) __typeof__(type) name;
\
^
./include/linux/percpu-defs.h:49:26: note: expanded from macro
'__PCPU_ATTRS'
__percpu __attribute__((section(PER_CPU_BASE_SECTION sec)))
\
^
net/rds/ib.h:446:1: note: previous attribute is here
DECLARE_PER_CPU(struct rds_ib_statistics, rds_ib_stats);
^
./include/linux/percpu-defs.h:111:2: note: expanded from macro
'DECLARE_PER_CPU'
DECLARE_PER_CPU_SECTION(type, name, "")
^
./include/linux/percpu-defs.h:87:9: note: expanded from macro
'DECLARE_PER_CPU_SECTION'
extern __PCPU_ATTRS(sec) __typeof__(type) name
^
./include/linux/percpu-defs.h:49:26: note: expanded from macro
'__PCPU_ATTRS'
__percpu __attribute__((section(PER_CPU_BASE_SECTION sec)))
\
^
1 warning generated.
The initial definition was added in commit ec16227e1414 ("RDS/IB:
Infiniband transport") and the cache aligned definition was added in
commit e6babe4cc4ce ("RDS/IB: Stats and sysctls") right after. The
definition probably should have been updated in net/rds/ib.h, which is
what this patch does.
Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/114
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx>
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v1 -> v2:
Fix reported build error by using DECLARE instead of DEFINE
Thanks for update !!
Acked-by: Santosh shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@xxxxxxxxxx>
