From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> This patch has been added to the 3.12 stable tree. If you have any objections, please let us know. =============== commit e72e2dfe7c16ffbfbabf9cb24adc6d9f93a4fe37 upstream. When gcov profiling is enabled, we see a lot of spurious warnings about possibly uninitialized variables being used: arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c: In function 'arm_coherent_iommu_map_page': arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c:1085:16: warning: 'start' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized] drivers/clk/st/clk-flexgen.c: In function 'st_of_flexgen_setup': drivers/clk/st/clk-flexgen.c:323:9: warning: 'num_parents' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized] kernel/cgroup.c: In function 'cgroup_mount': kernel/cgroup.c:2119:11: warning: 'root' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized] All of these are false positives, so it seems better to just disable the warnings whenever GCOV is enabled. Most users don't enable GCOV, and based on a prior patch, it is now also disabled for 'allmodconfig' builds, so there should be no downsides of doing this. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx> --- Makefile | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index c477e24e892c..c0e575c2594c 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -351,7 +351,7 @@ AFLAGS_MODULE = LDFLAGS_MODULE = CFLAGS_KERNEL = AFLAGS_KERNEL = -CFLAGS_GCOV = -fprofile-arcs -ftest-coverage -fno-tree-loop-im +CFLAGS_GCOV = -fprofile-arcs -ftest-coverage -fno-tree-loop-im -Wno-maybe-uninitialized # Use USERINCLUDE when you must reference the UAPI directories only. -- 2.10.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html