On Wed, Jan 03, 2018 at 10:54:16AM +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 03, 2018 at 12:24:12AM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 1:18 AM, Build bot for Mark Brown
> > <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > x86_64-defconfig : PASS, 0 errors, 2 warnings, 0 section mismatches
> > >
> > > Warnings:
> > > ../include/linux/ftrace.h:632:36: warning: calling '__builtin_return_address' with a nonzero argument is unsafe [-Wframe-address]
> > > ../include/linux/ftrace.h:632:36: warning: calling '__builtin_return_address' with a nonzero argument is unsafe [-Wframe-address]
> > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > This warning keeps coming up in 3.18 and 4.1 builds, which lack a backport of
> >
> > ef6000b4c670 ("Disable the __builtin_return_address() warning globally
> > after all")
> >
> > The other build bots use different gcc versions that don't report the
> > warning here,
> > so only Mark's bot triggers it. The warning in this file is harmless,
> > and the patch
> > only turns off the warning flag.
>
> Ah, I tried to figure this one out in the past, thanks for this, I'll
> queue it up soon. Hm, this isn't in 4.4.y, why is it not showing up
> there? Due to a different backport of this type of thing?
Nope, doesn't apply to 3.18 at all, as the main part of this patch is
already in there. I don't really understand it, it seems that the
cc-disable-warning option isn't working for me for 3.18 at all in my
local builds. I spent a few hours on it last week, but gave up in the
end :(
thanks,
greg k-h