Re: [PATCH v2 00/15] powerpc/32s: Use BATs/LTLBs for STRICT_KERNEL_RWX

From: Christophe Leroy
Date: Tue Jan 15 2019 - 05:57:45 EST




Le 15/01/2019 Ã 11:22, Michael Ellerman a ÃcritÂ:
Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@xxxxxx> writes:
Le 15/01/2019 Ã 01:33, Jonathan NeuschÃfer a ÃcritÂ:
...

- patches 7 to 11 fail to build with this error (really a warning, but
arch/powerpc doesn't allow warnings by default):

CC arch/powerpc/mm/ppc_mmu_32.o
../arch/powerpc/mm/ppc_mmu_32.c:133:13: error: âclearibatâ defined but not used [-Werror=unused-function]
static void clearibat(int index)
^~~~~~~~~
../arch/powerpc/mm/ppc_mmu_32.c:115:13: error: âsetibatâ defined but not used [-Werror=unused-function]
static void setibat(int index, unsigned long virt, phys_addr_t phys,
^~~~~~~
cc1: all warnings being treated as errors

Argh ! I have to squash the patch bringing the new functions with the
one using them (patch 12). The result is a big messy patch which is more
difficult to review but that's life.

You don't *have* to squash them.

We like to preserve bisectability, but it's not a 100% hard requirement.

Someone trying to bisect through those patches can always turn off
-Werror with PPC_DISABLE_WERROR. But they probably can just skip them
because they just add new code that's not called yet.

Ok thanks for the note.


So I won't object if you send them as-is.

Good to know. Anyway I think I will at least re-order so that the patch using the new functions immediatly follows the one adding the functions.

Christophe


cheers