[mingo-tip:sched/headers 1933/2579] lib/memcat_p.c:10:8: warning: no previous prototype for '__memcat_p'

From: kernel test robot
Date: Thu Apr 21 2022 - 02:45:58 EST


tree: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/tip.git sched/headers
head: 49e1ec6c70a6eb4b7de9250a455b8b63eb42afbe
commit: b17c57b9f326f544a10178f2be4c886c4b02b4f3 [1933/2579] headers/deps: smp: Optimize <linux/smp.h> dependencies, remove <linux/smp_api.h> inclusion
config: x86_64-randconfig-a013 (https://download.01.org/0day-ci/archive/20220421/202204210956.Xu01pPZP-lkp@xxxxxxxxx/config)
compiler: gcc-11 (Debian 11.2.0-20) 11.2.0
reproduce (this is a W=1 build):
# https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/tip.git/commit/?id=b17c57b9f326f544a10178f2be4c886c4b02b4f3
git remote add mingo-tip git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/tip.git
git fetch --no-tags mingo-tip sched/headers
git checkout b17c57b9f326f544a10178f2be4c886c4b02b4f3
# save the config file
mkdir build_dir && cp config build_dir/.config
make W=1 O=build_dir ARCH=x86_64 SHELL=/bin/bash

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Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>

All warnings (new ones prefixed by >>):

>> lib/memcat_p.c:10:8: warning: no previous prototype for '__memcat_p' [-Wmissing-prototypes]
10 | void **__memcat_p(void **a, void **b)
| ^~~~~~~~~~


vim +/__memcat_p +10 lib/memcat_p.c

93048c0944150b3 Alexander Shishkin 2018-10-16 4
93048c0944150b3 Alexander Shishkin 2018-10-16 5 /*
93048c0944150b3 Alexander Shishkin 2018-10-16 6 * Merge two NULL-terminated pointer arrays into a newly allocated
93048c0944150b3 Alexander Shishkin 2018-10-16 7 * array, which is also NULL-terminated. Nomenclature is inspired by
93048c0944150b3 Alexander Shishkin 2018-10-16 8 * memset_p() and memcat() found elsewhere in the kernel source tree.
93048c0944150b3 Alexander Shishkin 2018-10-16 9 */
93048c0944150b3 Alexander Shishkin 2018-10-16 @10 void **__memcat_p(void **a, void **b)

:::::: The code at line 10 was first introduced by commit
:::::: 93048c0944150b316a15f92c41a4d626c8df37fd lib: Fix ia64 bootloader linkage

:::::: TO: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
:::::: CC: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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