Re: [PATCH] perf/x86/intel: Fix unwind errors from PEBS entries (mk-II)

From: Fubo Chen
Date: Mon Aug 06 2018 - 19:04:55 EST


On Mon, Aug 6, 2018 at 3:30 PM Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Mon, Aug 06, 2018 at 02:28:18PM -0700, Fubo Chen wrote:
> > Do you think the patch below is sufficient to suppress the sparse warning?
>
> Why would I want to make the code ugly to supress it?

There are many kernel developers who use sparse to verify the
correctness of endianness annotations (__be32, __le32, ...). When
compiling kernel code with sparse every warning that is reported by
sparse should be analyzed. Most kernel developers consider it annoying
having to deal with false positive warnings. So I think that is useful
to suppress false positive sparse warnings if it is possible to
suppress false positives with a reasonable effort.

Thanks,

Fubo.



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