Re: linux-next: build warning after merge of the staging tree

[Gao Xiang]

Hi Stephen,

On Mon, Aug 26, 2019 at 04:38:01PM +0800, Gao Xiang wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> On Mon, Aug 26, 2019 at 08:30:24AM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 26, 2019 at 04:24:32PM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > > 
> > > After merging the staging tree, today's linux-next build (x86_64
> > > allmodconfig) produced this warning:
> > > 
> > > In file included from include/trace/events/erofs.h:8,
> > >                  from <command-line>:
> > > include/trace/events/erofs.h:28:37: warning: 'struct dentry' declared inside parameter list will not be visible outside of this definition or declaration
> > >   TP_PROTO(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry, unsigned int flags),
> > >                                      ^~~~~~
> > > include/linux/tracepoint.h:233:34: note: in definition of macro '__DECLARE_TRACE'
> > >   static inline void trace_##name(proto)    \
> > >                                   ^~~~~
> > > include/linux/tracepoint.h:396:24: note: in expansion of macro 'PARAMS'
> > >   __DECLARE_TRACE(name, PARAMS(proto), PARAMS(args),  \
> > >                         ^~~~~~
> > > include/linux/tracepoint.h:532:2: note: in expansion of macro 'DECLARE_TRACE'
> > >   DECLARE_TRACE(name, PARAMS(proto), PARAMS(args))
> > >   ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > > include/linux/tracepoint.h:532:22: note: in expansion of macro 'PARAMS'
> > >   DECLARE_TRACE(name, PARAMS(proto), PARAMS(args))
> > >                       ^~~~~~
> > > include/trace/events/erofs.h:26:1: note: in expansion of macro 'TRACE_EVENT'
> > >  TRACE_EVENT(erofs_lookup,
> > >  ^~~~~~~~~~~
> > > include/trace/events/erofs.h:28:2: note: in expansion of macro 'TP_PROTO'
> > >   TP_PROTO(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry, unsigned int flags),
> > >   ^~~~~~~~
> > > 
> > > and moany more like this ...

Could you give me more log about this? I don't know how to reproduce that warning
since I can compile x86-64 kernel image with my configproperly on my PC...
I'm trying allmodconfig now...

Thanks,
Gao Xiang

> > > 
> > > Introduced by commit
> > > 
> > >   47e4937a4a7c ("erofs: move erofs out of staging")
> > > 
> > > (or, at least, exposed by it).  It needs, at least, a "struct dentry;"
> > > added to the file.
> > 
> > Odd, why has this never been seen before when the same files were in
> > drivers/staging/ and why 0-day isn't reporting this?
> 
> I Think it is weird since it is never failed in staging and kbuild-all 0-day ci
> (my tree and you tree)....
> 
> > 
> > Gao, can you send me a patch for this?
> 
> Got it, I will look into that...
> 
> Thanks,
> Gao Xiang
> 
> > 
> > thanks,
> > 
> > greg k-h