Re: [PATCH] ftrace: Build with CPPFLAGS to get -Qunused-arguments

[Masahiro Yamada]

2018-09-18 2:24 GMT+09:00 Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 12:38 AM Joel Stanley <joel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> When building to record the mcount locations the kernel uses
>> KBUILD_CFLAGS but not KBUILD_CPPFLAGS. This means it lacks
>> -Qunused-arguments when building with clang, resulting in a lot of
>> noisy warnings.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley <joel@xxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> Not sure why -Qunused-arguments is in CPP instead of KBUILD_CFLAGS. We
>> could instead put it in KBUILD_CFLAGS, and not need this patch.
>
> The preprocessor has flags that can change the definitions of macros.
> So there might be unused flags there.  I'm not a fan of covering up
> those warnings via -Qunused-arguments; the flags should be feature
> detected via cc-option and friends rather than always added then
> silenced if excessive.  That hides flags that are long dead/unused.
>
> Thanks for this patch!
> Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
>>
>>  scripts/Makefile.build | 2 +-
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>


Applied to linux-kbuild/fixes. Thanks!


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Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada