Re: improper sparse warnings in linux kernel build?

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On Fri, Sep 09, 2011 at 03:41:28PM -0700, H Hartley Sweeten wrote:
> I'm not really sure what the DEFINE_PER_CPU macro expands to so I'm not
> sure if the 'static' in front is actually getting used or if sparse is just
> confused.
> 
> Is this an actual problem in the linux kernel or is sparse just getting
> tripped up by the DEFINE_PER_CPU macro?
> 

I don't have a kernel git archive handy, but probably sparse is
correct.  Do a "make arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_intel.i" and run
sparse on the .i file to find the line number that complains.

regards,
dan carpenter

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