Re: [PATCH v2 12/12] x86/paravirt: have only one paravirt patch function

From: kernel test robot
Date: Fri Nov 20 2020 - 09:18:52 EST


Hi Juergen,

I love your patch! Perhaps something to improve:

[auto build test WARNING on v5.10-rc4]
[also build test WARNING on next-20201120]
[cannot apply to tip/x86/core xen-tip/linux-next tip/x86/asm]
[If your patch is applied to the wrong git tree, kindly drop us a note.
And when submitting patch, we suggest to use '--base' as documented in
https://git-scm.com/docs/git-format-patch]

url: https://github.com/0day-ci/linux/commits/Juergen-Gross/x86-major-paravirt-cleanup/20201120-194934
base: 09162bc32c880a791c6c0668ce0745cf7958f576
config: x86_64-randconfig-r014-20201120 (attached as .config)
compiler: clang version 12.0.0 (https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project 3ded927cf80ac519f9f9c4664fef08787f7c537d)
reproduce (this is a W=1 build):
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/intel/lkp-tests/master/sbin/make.cross -O ~/bin/make.cross
chmod +x ~/bin/make.cross
# install x86_64 cross compiling tool for clang build
# apt-get install binutils-x86-64-linux-gnu
# https://github.com/0day-ci/linux/commit/340df5e02c66ec37486a1f31e6497a22dab65059
git remote add linux-review https://github.com/0day-ci/linux
git fetch --no-tags linux-review Juergen-Gross/x86-major-paravirt-cleanup/20201120-194934
git checkout 340df5e02c66ec37486a1f31e6497a22dab65059
# save the attached .config to linux build tree
COMPILER_INSTALL_PATH=$HOME/0day COMPILER=clang make.cross ARCH=x86_64

If you fix the issue, kindly add following tag as appropriate
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>

All warnings (new ones prefixed by >>):

>> arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c:124:10: warning: no previous prototype for function 'paravirt_patch_insns' [-Wmissing-prototypes]
unsigned paravirt_patch_insns(void *insn_buff, unsigned len,
^
arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c:124:1: note: declare 'static' if the function is not intended to be used outside of this translation unit
unsigned paravirt_patch_insns(void *insn_buff, unsigned len,
^
static
1 warning generated.

vim +/paravirt_patch_insns +124 arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c

63f70270ccd981c arch/i386/kernel/paravirt.c Jeremy Fitzhardinge 2007-05-02 123
1fc654cf6e04b40 arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c Ingo Molnar 2019-04-25 @124 unsigned paravirt_patch_insns(void *insn_buff, unsigned len,
63f70270ccd981c arch/i386/kernel/paravirt.c Jeremy Fitzhardinge 2007-05-02 125 const char *start, const char *end)
63f70270ccd981c arch/i386/kernel/paravirt.c Jeremy Fitzhardinge 2007-05-02 126 {
63f70270ccd981c arch/i386/kernel/paravirt.c Jeremy Fitzhardinge 2007-05-02 127 unsigned insn_len = end - start;
63f70270ccd981c arch/i386/kernel/paravirt.c Jeremy Fitzhardinge 2007-05-02 128
2777cae2b19d4a0 arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c Ingo Molnar 2019-04-25 129 /* Alternative instruction is too large for the patch site and we cannot continue: */
2777cae2b19d4a0 arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c Ingo Molnar 2019-04-25 130 BUG_ON(insn_len > len || start == NULL);
2777cae2b19d4a0 arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c Ingo Molnar 2019-04-25 131
1fc654cf6e04b40 arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c Ingo Molnar 2019-04-25 132 memcpy(insn_buff, start, insn_len);
139ec7c416248b9 arch/i386/kernel/paravirt.c Rusty Russell 2006-12-07 133
139ec7c416248b9 arch/i386/kernel/paravirt.c Rusty Russell 2006-12-07 134 return insn_len;
139ec7c416248b9 arch/i386/kernel/paravirt.c Rusty Russell 2006-12-07 135 }
139ec7c416248b9 arch/i386/kernel/paravirt.c Rusty Russell 2006-12-07 136

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