Re: [PATCH 1/3] kbuild: add macro for controlling warnings to linux/compiler.h

From: Masahiro Yamada
Date: Tue Jun 19 2018 - 13:35:29 EST


Hi.

2018-06-16 9:53 GMT+09:00 Paul Burton <paul.burton@xxxxxxxx>:
> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
>
> I have occasionally run into a situation where it would make sense to
> control a compiler warning from a source file rather than doing so from
> a Makefile using the $(cc-disable-warning, ...) or $(cc-option, ...)
> helpers.
>
> The approach here is similar to what glibc uses, using __diag() and
> related macros to encapsulate a _Pragma("GCC diagnostic ...") statement
> that gets turned into the respective "#pragma GCC diagnostic ..." by
> the preprocessor when the macro gets expanded.
>
> Like glibc, I also have an argument to pass the affected compiler
> version, but decided to actually evaluate that one. For now, this
> supports GCC_4_6, GCC_4_7, GCC_4_8, GCC_4_9, GCC_5, GCC_6, GCC_7,
> GCC_8 and GCC_9. Adding support for CLANG_5 and other interesting
> versions is straightforward here. GNU compilers starting with gcc-4.2
> could support it in principle, but "#pragma GCC diagnostic push"
> was only added in gcc-4.6, so it seems simpler to not deal with those
> at all. The same versions show a large number of warnings already,
> so it seems easier to just leave it at that and not do a more
> fine-grained control for them.
>
> The use cases I found so far include:
>
> - turning off the gcc-8 -Wattribute-alias warning inside of the
> SYSCALL_DEFINEx() macro without having to do it globally.
>
> - Reducing the build time for a simple re-make after a change,
> once we move the warnings from ./Makefile and
> ./scripts/Makefile.extrawarn into linux/compiler.h
>
> - More control over the warnings based on other configurations,
> using preprocessor syntax instead of Makefile syntax. This should make
> it easier for the average developer to understand and change things.
>
> - Adding an easy way to turn the W=1 option on unconditionally
> for a subdirectory or a specific file. This has been requested
> by several developers in the past that want to have their subsystems
> W=1 clean.
>
> - Integrating clang better into the build systems. Clang supports
> more warnings than GCC, and we probably want to classify them
> as default, W=1, W=2 etc, but there are cases in which the
> warnings should be classified differently due to excessive false
> positives from one or the other compiler.
>
> - Adding a way to turn the default warnings into errors (e.g. using
> a new "make E=0" tag) while not also turning the W=1 warnings into
> errors.
>
> This patch for now just adds the minimal infrastructure in order to
> do the first of the list above. As the #pragma GCC diagnostic
> takes precedence over command line options, the next step would be
> to convert a lot of the individual Makefiles that set nonstandard
> options to use __diag() instead.
>
> [paul.burton@xxxxxxxx:
> - Rebase atop current master.
> - Add __diag_GCC, or more generally __diag_<compiler>, abstraction to
> avoid code outside of linux/compiler-gcc.h needing to duplicate
> knowledge about different GCC versions.
> - Add a comment argument to __diag_{ignore,warn,error} which isn't
> used in the expansion of the macros but serves to push people to
> document the reason for using them - per feedback from Kees Cook.]
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Michal Marek <michal.lkml@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Douglas Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@xxxxxx>
> Cc: Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Gideon Israel Dsouza <gidisrael@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@xxxxxx>
> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Stafford Horne <shorne@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Khem Raj <raj.khem@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: He Zhe <zhe.he@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-kbuild@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: linux-mips@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: linuxppc-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> ---
>
> include/linux/compiler-gcc.h | 66 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> include/linux/compiler_types.h | 18 ++++++++++
> 2 files changed, 84 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h b/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h
> index f1a7492a5cc8..aba64a2912d8 100644
> --- a/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h
> +++ b/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h
> @@ -347,3 +347,69 @@
> #if GCC_VERSION >= 50100
> #define COMPILER_HAS_GENERIC_BUILTIN_OVERFLOW 1
> #endif
> +
> +/*
> + * turn individual warnings and errors on and off locally, depending
> + * on version.
> + */
> +#define __diag_GCC(version, s) __diag_GCC_ ## version(s)
> +
> +#if GCC_VERSION >= 40600
> +#define __diag_str1(s) #s
> +#define __diag_str(s) __diag_str1(s)
> +#define __diag(s) _Pragma(__diag_str(GCC diagnostic s))
> +
> +/* compilers before gcc-4.6 do not understand "#pragma GCC diagnostic push" */
> +#define __diag_GCC_4_6(s) __diag(s)
> +#else
> +#define __diag(s)
> +#define __diag_GCC_4_6(s)
> +#endif
> +
> +#if GCC_VERSION >= 40700
> +#define __diag_GCC_4_7(s) __diag(s)
> +#else
> +#define __diag_GCC_4_7(s)
> +#endif
> +
> +#if GCC_VERSION >= 40800
> +#define __diag_GCC_4_8(s) __diag(s)
> +#else
> +#define __diag_GCC_4_8(s)
> +#endif
> +
> +#if GCC_VERSION >= 40900
> +#define __diag_GCC_4_9(s) __diag(s)
> +#else
> +#define __diag_GCC_4_9(s)
> +#endif
> +
> +#if GCC_VERSION >= 50000
> +#define __diag_GCC_5(s) __diag(s)
> +#else
> +#define __diag_GCC_5(s)
> +#endif
> +
> +#if GCC_VERSION >= 60000
> +#define __diag_GCC_6(s) __diag(s)
> +#else
> +#define __diag_GCC_6(s)
> +#endif
> +
> +#if GCC_VERSION >= 70000
> +#define __diag_GCC_7(s) __diag(s)
> +#else
> +#define __diag_GCC_7(s)
> +#endif
> +
> +#if GCC_VERSION >= 80000
> +#define __diag_GCC_8(s) __diag(s)
> +#else
> +#define __diag_GCC_8(s)
> +#endif
> +
> +#if GCC_VERSION >= 90000
> +#define __diag_GCC_9(s) __diag(s)
> +#else
> +#define __diag_GCC_9(s)
> +#endif


Hmm, we would have to add this for every release.



> diff --git a/include/linux/compiler_types.h b/include/linux/compiler_types.h
> index 6b79a9bba9a7..313a2ad884e0 100644
> --- a/include/linux/compiler_types.h
> +++ b/include/linux/compiler_types.h
> @@ -271,4 +271,22 @@ struct ftrace_likely_data {
> # define __native_word(t) (sizeof(t) == sizeof(char) || sizeof(t) == sizeof(short) || sizeof(t) == sizeof(int) || sizeof(t) == sizeof(long))
> #endif
>
> +#ifndef __diag
> +#define __diag(string)
> +#endif
> +
> +#ifndef __diag_GCC
> +#define __diag_GCC(string)
> +#endif




__diag_GCC() takes two arguments,
so it should be:

#ifndef __diag_GCC
#define __diag_GCC(version, s)
#endif


Otherwise, this would cause warning like this:


arch/arm64/kernel/sys.c:40:1: error: macro "__diag_GCC" passed 2
arguments, but takes just 1
SYSCALL_DEFINE1(arm64_personality, unsigned int, personality)
^~~~~~~~~~







> +#define __diag_push() __diag(push)
> +#define __diag_pop() __diag(pop)
> +
> +#define __diag_ignore(compiler, version, option, comment) \
> + __diag_ ## compiler(version, ignored option)
> +#define __diag_warn(compiler, version, option, comment) \
> + __diag_ ## compiler(version, warning option)
> +#define __diag_error(compiler, version, option, comment) \
> + __diag_ ## compiler(version, error option)
> +


To me, it looks like this is putting GCC/Clang specific things
in the common file, <linux/compiler_types.h> .

All compilers must use "ignored", "warning", "error",
not allowed to use "ignore".



I also wonder if we could avoid proliferating __diag_GCC_*.



> #endif /* __LINUX_COMPILER_TYPES_H */
> --
> 2.17.1
>


I attached a bit different implementation below.

I used -Wno-pragmas to avoid unknown option warnings.




diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index ca2af1a..d610d81 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -817,6 +817,8 @@ KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-Werror=designated-init)
# change __FILE__ to the relative path from the srctree
KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-fmacro-prefix-map=$(srctree)/=)

+KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-Wno-pragmas)
+
# use the deterministic mode of AR if available
KBUILD_ARFLAGS := $(call ar-option,D)

diff --git a/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h b/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h
index f1a7492..3f9c1cc 100644
--- a/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h
+++ b/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
#error "Please don't include <linux/compiler-gcc.h> directly, include
<linux/compiler.h> instead."
#endif

+#include <linux/stringify.h>
+
/*
* Common definitions for all gcc versions go here.
*/
@@ -259,6 +261,16 @@
*/
#define __visible __attribute__((externally_visible))

+/* turn individual warnings and errors on and off locally */
+#define __diag_gcc(s) _Pragma(__stringify(GCC diagnostic s))
+
+#define __diag_push() __diag_gcc(push)
+#define __diag_pop() __diag_gcc(pop)
+
+#define __diag_ignore(option, comment) __diag_gcc(ignored __stringify(option))
+#define __diag_warn(option, comment) __diag_gcc(warning __stringify(option))
+#define __diag_error(option, comment) __diag_gcc(error __stringify(option))
+
#endif /* GCC_VERSION >= 40600 */
diff --git a/include/linux/compiler_types.h b/include/linux/compiler_types.h
index 6b79a9b..32e354f 100644
--- a/include/linux/compiler_types.h
+++ b/include/linux/compiler_types.h
@@ -271,4 +271,24 @@ struct ftrace_likely_data {
# define __native_word(t) (sizeof(t) == sizeof(char) || sizeof(t) ==
sizeof(short) || sizeof(t) == sizeof(int) || sizeof(t) ==
sizeof(long))
#endif

+#ifndef __diag_push
+#define __diag_push()
+#endif
+
+#ifndef __diag_pop
+#define __diag_pop()
+#endif
+
+#ifndef __diag_ignore
+#define __diag_ignore(option, comment)
+#endif
+
+#ifndef __diag_warn
+#define __diag_warn(option, comment)
+#endif
+
+#ifndef __diag_error
+#define __diag_error(option, comment)
+#endif
+
#endif /* __LINUX_COMPILER_TYPES_H */





Usage is

__diag_push();
__diag_ignore(-Wattribute-alias,
"Type aliasing is used to sanitize syscall arguments");
...
__diag_pop();




Comments, ideas are appreciated.




--
Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada