Re: unused-variable warning is getting disabled with clang

[Sodagudi Prasad]

On 2017-12-06 22:26, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 06, 2017 at 01:24:51PM -0800, Sodagudi Prasad wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > When kernel compiled with clang, following line is disabling the
> > unused-variable warning. This is not the case with gcc.
> > KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-disable-warning, unused-variable)
> >
> > Are there any specific reasons for disabling unused-variable with 
> > clang?
>
> Try it and see why it is disabled :)

Hi Greg,

When I have enabled -Wunused-variable warnings with clang, observed both 
-Wunused-variable and -Wunused-const-variable as expected.
It looks that, -Wunused-const-variable warnings are disabled explicitly 
with GCC as well.
commit -  c9c6837d39311b0c - "kbuild: move -Wunused-const-variable to 
W=1 warning level"

I could see following warnings along with couple of -Wunused-variables 
warnings with downstream code.
arch/arm64/crypto/sha1-ce-glue.c:118:1: warning: unused variable 
'cpu_feature_match_SHA1' [-Wunused-const-variable]
include/linux/cpufeature.h:48:33: note: expanded from macro 
'module_cpu_feature_match'
arch/arm64/crypto/sha2-ce-glue.c:148:1: warning: unused variable 
'cpu_feature_match_SHA2' [-Wunused-const-variable]
arch/arm64/crypto/ghash-ce-glue.c:597:33: warning: unused variable 
'ghash_cpu_feature' [-Wunused-const-variable]
arch/arm64/crypto/aes-ce-cipher.c:280:1: warning: unused variable 
'cpu_feature_match_AES' [-Wunused-const-variable]
arch/arm64/crypto/aes-glue.c:674:1: warning: unused variable 
'cpu_feature_match_AES' [-Wunused-const-variable]
kernel/trace/ftrace.c:1092:27: warning: unused variable 
'ftrace_swapper_pid' [-Wunused-const-variable]
drivers/usb/host/ehci-platform.c:406:36: warning: unused variable 
'ehci_acpi_match' [-Wunused-const-variable]
drivers/usb/host/xhci-plat.c:416:36: warning: unused variable 
'usb_xhci_acpi_match' [-Wunused-const-variable]

So I have made following change and I will share patch for the same.

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 4e6da2f..8a6c14e 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -711,7 +711,7 @@ endif
 KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(CLANG_TARGET) $(CLANG_GCC_TC) -meabi gnu
 KBUILD_AFLAGS += $(CLANG_TARGET) $(CLANG_GCC_TC)
 KBUILD_CPPFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-Qunused-arguments,)
-KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-disable-warning, unused-variable)
+KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-disable-warning, unused-const-variable)
 KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-disable-warning, format-invalid-specifier)
 KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-disable-warning, gnu)
 KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-disable-warning, address-of-packed-member)

Please let me know if you have any concerns with this approach to 
identify all unused local variables.

-Thanks, Prasad

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