Re: [PATCH] KVM: selftests: Compile code with warnings enabled
From: Thomas Huth
Date: Fri May 17 2019 - 03:17:20 EST
On 17/05/2019 04.45, Peter Xu wrote:
> Hi, Thomas,
>
> On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 03:02:57PM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote:
>> So far the KVM selftests are compiled without any compiler warnings
>> enabled. That's quite bad, since we miss a lot of possible bugs this
>> way. Let's enable at least "-Wall" and some other useful warning flags
>> now.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> This patch fixes most of the warnings in the x86 code already - but
>> for some warnings, I was not quite sure (e.g. about the need for the
>> kvm_get_supported_cpuid_entry(1) in some tests), so I did not touch
>
> If you mean the two calls in state_test and evmcs_test I would agree
> they should be dropped directly.
Yes, that were the once I had in mind. I'll drop them in v2.
> Just to mention that the patch may not apply cleanly to kvm/queue now
> probably because the dirty-log-test.c touchup recently, so may need a
> rebase. Otherwise it looks nice at least to me to have these checks.
Ok, thanks for the hint, I'll rebase and send a v2.
Thomas