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

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 11:14:42PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 11:03 PM, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 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")
> 
> Ah, right. I missed that when I wrote the new changelog text for this old
> patch of mine. It also means I should rebase the patch so it applies
> on mainline, as I still want PROFILE_ALL_BRANCHES to be disabled
> in COMPILE_TEST kernels for the build speed aspect.
> 
> Greg, could you add the 68e76e034b6b1 commit to 4.14-stable and
> 4.15-stable in the meantime?

It's already in 4.15, so I'll just queue it up to 4.14.y.

thanks,

greg k-h