Re: [PATCH 1/3] Kconfig: disable PROFILE_ALL_BRANCHES for compile testing

[Steven Rostedt]

On Fri, 16 Feb 2018 22:41:11 +0100
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> This can easily double the time for compiling a driver but does not
> provide any benefit for the compile tester, so it's better left disabled.
> 
> In addition, any 'inline' function that is not also 'static' and that
> contains an 'if' causes a warning like
> 
> include/linux/string.h:212:2: note: in expansion of macro 'if'
>   if (strscpy(p, q, p_size < q_size ? p_size : q_size) < 0)
>   ^~
> include/linux/compiler.h:162:4: warning: '______f' is static but declared in inline function 'strcpy' which is not static
> 
> without this patch, and I could not come up with a nice fix for that.
> In combination with my patch to always enable 'CONFIG_COMPILE_TEST'
> during 'randconfig' builds, we can at least hide these warnings for
> most users.

This looks like it fixes the same issue that was already fixed and is
in Linus's tree.

 http://lkml.kernel.org/r/9199446b-a141-c0c3-9678-a3f9107f2750@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

See commit 68e76e034b6b1 ("tracing: Prevent PROFILE_ALL_BRANCHES when
FORTIFY_SOURCE=y")

-- Steve