On Fri, Nov 08, 2024 at 03:03:43PM +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote:
On Fri, Nov 08, 2024 at 02:58:34PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
On Fri, Nov 08, 2024 at 01:49:16PM +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote:
It looks like people started ignoring the compiler warnings (or even errors) when building the arm64-specific kselftests. The first three patches are printf() arguments adjustment. The last one adds ".arch_extension sme", otherwise they fail to build (with my toolchain
Unfortunately there's a lot of toolchain variance with these warnings so a lot of people simply won't see them, you need a fairly fresh toolchain
But we should still fix them ;). I tried both gcc-12 and clang-14 that come with my Debian stable installation. If we see others, we'll fix them in time.
Oh, we should definitely fix them - it's just I'm not sure people have been seeing them to be ignoring them as you mentioned above. AFAICT nobody goes on warning patrol in the selftests with any degree of frequency like happens in the main kernel, nor tunes the warning set, so they tend to build up in the older tests that aren't being updated as a matter of routine. You do sometimes get someone coming in and doing a round of cleanups but it's sporadic.