[PATCH] Kbuild: disable 'maybe-uninitialized' warning for CONFIG_PROFILE_ALL_BRANCHES

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Mon Nov 23 08:26:45 PST 2015


CONFIG_PROFILE_ALL_BRANCHES confuses gcc-5.x to the degree that it prints
incorrect warnings about a lot of variables that it thinks can be used
uninitialized, e.g.:

i2c/busses/i2c-diolan-u2c.c: In function 'diolan_usb_xfer':
i2c/busses/i2c-diolan-u2c.c:391:16: warning: 'byte' may be used uninitialized in this function
iio/gyro/itg3200_core.c: In function 'itg3200_probe':
iio/gyro/itg3200_core.c:213:6: warning: 'val' may be used uninitialized in this function
leds/leds-lp55xx-common.c: In function 'lp55xx_update_bits':
leds/leds-lp55xx-common.c:350:6: warning: 'tmp' may be used uninitialized in this function
misc/bmp085.c: In function 'show_pressure':
misc/bmp085.c:363:10: warning: 'pressure' may be used uninitialized in this function
power/ds2782_battery.c: In function 'ds2786_get_capacity':
power/ds2782_battery.c:214:17: warning: 'raw' may be used uninitialized in this function

These are all false positives that either rob someone's time when trying
to figure out whether they are real, or they get people to send wrong
patches to shut up the warnings.

Nobody normally wants to run a CONFIG_PROFILE_ALL_BRANCHES kernel in
production, so disabling the whole class of warnings for this configuration
has no serious downsides either.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 5e01a416c6e4..f8b921658f29 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -626,7 +626,11 @@ KBUILD_CFLAGS	+= $(call cc-option,-fno-delete-null-pointer-checks,)
 ifdef CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
 KBUILD_CFLAGS	+= -Os $(call cc-disable-warning,maybe-uninitialized,)
 else
-KBUILD_CFLAGS	+= -O2
+ifdef CONFIG_PROFILE_ALL_BRANCHES
+KBUILD_CFLAGS	+= -O2 $(call cc-disable-warning,maybe-uninitialized,)
+else
+KBUILD_CFLAGS   += -O2
+endif
 endif
 
 # Tell gcc to never replace conditional load with a non-conditional one




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