Re: [tip:sched/core 14/47] kernel/sched/fair.c:893:22: error: variable 'p' set but not used

From: Nathan Chancellor
Date: Thu Oct 14 2021 - 00:24:03 EST


On Tue, Oct 12, 2021 at 03:35:42PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 12, 2021 at 01:26:54PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>
> > Again, I have absolutely no intention of fixing this. IMO this is the
> > compiler being a total pain in the arse.
> >
> > Please stop reporting this.
>
> How's this then?
>
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/Makefile b/kernel/sched/Makefile
> index 978fcfca5871..b0d9121c5dce 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/Makefile
> +++ b/kernel/sched/Makefile
> @@ -3,6 +3,10 @@ ifdef CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER
> CFLAGS_REMOVE_clock.o = $(CC_FLAGS_FTRACE)
> endif
>
> +# The compilers are complaining about unused variables inside an if(0) scope
> +# block. This is daft, shut them up.
> +ccflags-y += -Wno-unused-but-set-variable

Please consider making this

ccflags-y += $(call cc-disable-warning, unused-but-set-variable)

because -Wunused-but-set-variable was only added to clang in the 13
release but we support back to 10, meaning this will cause errors for
those older compilers.

With that:

Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>

Additionally, perhaps this could be restricted to just fair.c?

> +
> # These files are disabled because they produce non-interesting flaky coverage
> # that is not a function of syscall inputs. E.g. involuntary context switches.
> KCOV_INSTRUMENT := n
>