Re: [PATCH] block: Silence spurious compiler warnings

From: Stephen Rothwell
Date: Wed Nov 27 2013 - 19:50:56 EST


Hi Kent,

On Tue, 26 Nov 2013 16:39:49 -0800 Kent Overstreet <kmo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> From 46e7081430f5f483906f496733a23f8e9d898879 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Kent Overstreet <kmo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2013 16:36:49 -0800
> Subject: [PATCH] block: Silence spurious compiler warnings
>
> Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Unfortunately, that did not work :-(

I am till getting these warnings into today's linux-next after merging
the block tree (arm multi_v7_defconfig, gcc 4.6):

block/blk-merge.c: In function 'blk_rq_map_sg':
block/blk-merge.c:135:8: warning: 'bvprv.bv_page' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wuninitialized]
block/blk-merge.c:173:23: note: 'bvprv.bv_page' was declared here
block/blk-merge.c:135:8: warning: 'bvprv.bv_len' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wuninitialized]
block/blk-merge.c:173:23: note: 'bvprv.bv_len' was declared here
block/blk-merge.c:135:8: warning: 'bvprv.bv_offset' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wuninitialized]
block/blk-merge.c:173:23: note: 'bvprv.bv_offset' was declared here
block/blk-merge.c: In function 'blk_bio_map_sg':
block/blk-merge.c:135:8: warning: 'bvprv.bv_offset' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wuninitialized]
block/blk-merge.c:237:23: note: 'bvprv.bv_offset' was declared here
block/blk-merge.c:135:8: warning: 'bvprv.bv_len' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wuninitialized]
block/blk-merge.c:237:23: note: 'bvprv.bv_len' was declared here
block/blk-merge.c:135:8: warning: 'bvprv.bv_page' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wuninitialized]
block/blk-merge.c:237:23: note: 'bvprv.bv_page' was declared here
block/blk-merge.c: In function 'attempt_merge':
block/blk-merge.c:110:7: warning: 'end_bv.bv_offset' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wuninitialized]
block/blk-merge.c:89:17: note: 'end_bv.bv_offset' was declared here
block/blk-merge.c:110:7: warning: 'end_bv.bv_len' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wuninitialized]
block/blk-merge.c:89:17: note: 'end_bv.bv_len' was declared here
block/blk-merge.c:110:7: warning: 'end_bv.bv_page' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wuninitialized]
block/blk-merge.c:89:17: note: 'end_bv.bv_page' was declared here

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Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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