On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 11:03 PM, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 16 Feb 2018 22:41:11 +0100 > Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> This can easily double the time for compiling a driver but does not >> provide any benefit for the compile tester, so it's better left disabled. >> >> In addition, any 'inline' function that is not also 'static' and that >> contains an 'if' causes a warning like >> >> include/linux/string.h:212:2: note: in expansion of macro 'if' >> if (strscpy(p, q, p_size < q_size ? p_size : q_size) < 0) >> ^~ >> include/linux/compiler.h:162:4: warning: '______f' is static but declared in inline function 'strcpy' which is not static >> >> without this patch, and I could not come up with a nice fix for that. >> In combination with my patch to always enable 'CONFIG_COMPILE_TEST' >> during 'randconfig' builds, we can at least hide these warnings for >> most users. > > This looks like it fixes the same issue that was already fixed and is > in Linus's tree. > > http://lkml.kernel.org/r/9199446b-a141-c0c3-9678-a3f9107f2750@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > See commit 68e76e034b6b1 ("tracing: Prevent PROFILE_ALL_BRANCHES when > FORTIFY_SOURCE=y") Ah, right. I missed that when I wrote the new changelog text for this old patch of mine. It also means I should rebase the patch so it applies on mainline, as I still want PROFILE_ALL_BRANCHES to be disabled in COMPILE_TEST kernels for the build speed aspect. Greg, could you add the 68e76e034b6b1 commit to 4.14-stable and 4.15-stable in the meantime? Arnd