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Building a kernel with "make W=1" produces far too much noise to be
useful.

Divide the warning options in three groups:

    W=1 - warnings that may be relevant and does not occur too often
    W=2 - warnings that occur quite often but may still be relevant
    W=3 - the more obscure warnings, can most likely be ignored

When building the whole kernel, those levels produce:

W=1 - 4859 warnings
W=2 - 1394 warnings
W=3 - 86666 warnings

respectively. Warnings have been counted with Geert's script at

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/geert/linux-log/linux-log-summary.pl

Many warnings occur from .h files so fixing one file may have a nice
effect on the total number of warnings.

With these changes I am actually tempted to try W=1 now and then.
Previously there was just too much noise.

Borislav:

- make the W= levels exclusive
- move very noisy and making little sense for the kernel warnings to W=3
- drop -Woverlength-strings due to useless warning message
- copy explanatory text for the different warning levels to 'make help'
- recount warnings per level

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
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sravnborg authored and michal42 committed Apr 28, 2011
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8 changes: 6 additions & 2 deletions Makefile
Expand Up @@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ ifeq ("$(origin O)", "command line")
endif

ifeq ("$(origin W)", "command line")
export KBUILD_ENABLE_EXTRA_GCC_CHECKS := 1
export KBUILD_ENABLE_EXTRA_GCC_CHECKS := $(W)
endif

# That's our default target when none is given on the command line
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@echo ' make O=dir [targets] Locate all output files in "dir", including .config'
@echo ' make C=1 [targets] Check all c source with $$CHECK (sparse by default)'
@echo ' make C=2 [targets] Force check of all c source with $$CHECK'
@echo ' make W=1 [targets] Enable extra gcc checks'
@echo ' make W=n [targets] Enable extra gcc checks, n=1,2,3 where'
@echo ' 1: warnings which may be relevant and do not occur too often'
@echo ' 2: warnings which occur quite often but may still be relevant'
@echo ' 3: more obscure warnings, can most likely be ignored'

@echo ''
@echo 'Execute "make" or "make all" to build all targets marked with [*] '
@echo 'For further info see the ./README file'
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65 changes: 38 additions & 27 deletions scripts/Makefile.build
Expand Up @@ -51,36 +51,47 @@ ifeq ($(KBUILD_NOPEDANTIC),)
endif

#
# make W=1 settings
# make W=... settings
#
# $(call cc-option... ) handles gcc -W.. options which
# W=1 - warnings that may be relevant and does not occur too often
# W=2 - warnings that occur quite often but may still be relevant
# W=3 - the more obscure warnings, can most likely be ignored
#
# $(call cc-option, -W...) handles gcc -W.. options which
# are not supported by all versions of the compiler
ifdef KBUILD_ENABLE_EXTRA_GCC_CHECKS
KBUILD_EXTRA_WARNINGS := -Wextra
KBUILD_EXTRA_WARNINGS += -Wunused -Wno-unused-parameter
KBUILD_EXTRA_WARNINGS += -Waggregate-return
KBUILD_EXTRA_WARNINGS += -Wbad-function-cast
KBUILD_EXTRA_WARNINGS += -Wcast-qual
KBUILD_EXTRA_WARNINGS += -Wcast-align
KBUILD_EXTRA_WARNINGS += -Wconversion
KBUILD_EXTRA_WARNINGS += -Wdisabled-optimization
KBUILD_EXTRA_WARNINGS += -Wlogical-op
KBUILD_EXTRA_WARNINGS += -Wmissing-declarations
KBUILD_EXTRA_WARNINGS += -Wmissing-format-attribute
KBUILD_EXTRA_WARNINGS += $(call cc-option, -Wmissing-include-dirs,)
KBUILD_EXTRA_WARNINGS += -Wmissing-prototypes
KBUILD_EXTRA_WARNINGS += -Wnested-externs
KBUILD_EXTRA_WARNINGS += -Wold-style-definition
KBUILD_EXTRA_WARNINGS += $(call cc-option, -Woverlength-strings,)
KBUILD_EXTRA_WARNINGS += -Wpacked
KBUILD_EXTRA_WARNINGS += -Wpacked-bitfield-compat
KBUILD_EXTRA_WARNINGS += -Wpadded
KBUILD_EXTRA_WARNINGS += -Wpointer-arith
KBUILD_EXTRA_WARNINGS += -Wredundant-decls
KBUILD_EXTRA_WARNINGS += -Wshadow
KBUILD_EXTRA_WARNINGS += -Wswitch-default
KBUILD_EXTRA_WARNINGS += $(call cc-option, -Wvla,)
KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(KBUILD_EXTRA_WARNINGS)
warning-1 := -Wextra -Wunused -Wno-unused-parameter
warning-1 += -Wmissing-declarations
warning-1 += -Wmissing-format-attribute
warning-1 += -Wmissing-prototypes
warning-1 += -Wold-style-definition
warning-1 += $(call cc-option, -Wmissing-include-dirs)

warning-2 := -Waggregate-return
warning-2 += -Wcast-align
warning-2 += -Wdisabled-optimization
warning-2 += -Wnested-externs
warning-2 += -Wshadow
warning-2 += $(call cc-option, -Wlogical-op)

warning-3 := -Wbad-function-cast
warning-3 += -Wcast-qual
warning-3 += -Wconversion
warning-3 += -Wpacked
warning-3 += -Wpadded
warning-3 += -Wpointer-arith
warning-3 += -Wredundant-decls
warning-3 += -Wswitch-default
warning-3 += $(call cc-option, -Wpacked-bitfield-compat)
warning-3 += $(call cc-option, -Wvla)

warning := $(warning-$(KBUILD_ENABLE_EXTRA_GCC_CHECKS))

ifeq ("$(warning)","")
$(error W=$(KBUILD_ENABLE_EXTRA_GCC_CHECKS) is unknown)
endif

KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(warning)
endif

include scripts/Makefile.lib
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