Re: [PATCH 1/3] [v3] Kbuild: move to -std=gnu11
From: Sedat Dilek
Date: Fri Mar 04 2022 - 06:24:58 EST
On Wed, Mar 2, 2022 at 5:29 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
>
> During a patch discussion, Linus brought up the option of changing
> the C standard version from gnu89 to gnu99, which allows using variable
> declaration inside of a for() loop. While the C99, C11 and later standards
> introduce many other features, most of these are already available in
> gnu89 as GNU extensions as well.
>
> An earlier attempt to do this when gcc-5 started defaulting to
> -std=gnu11 failed because at the time that caused warnings about
> designated initializers with older compilers. Now that gcc-5.1 is
> the minimum compiler version used for building kernels, that is no
> longer a concern. Similarly, the behavior of 'inline' functions changes
> between gnu89 using gnu_inline behavior and gnu11 using standard c99+
> behavior, but this was taken care of by defining 'inline' to include
> __attribute__((gnu_inline)) in order to allow building with clang a
> while ago.
>
> One minor issue that remains is an added gcc warning for shifts of
> negative integers when building with -Wextra, which happens with the
> 'make W=1' option, as well as for three drivers in the kernel that always
> enable -Wextra, but it was only observed with the i915 driver so far.
> To be on the safe side, add -Wno-shift-negative-value to any -Wextra
> in a Makefile.
>
> Nathan Chancellor reported an additional -Wdeclaration-after-statement
> warning that appears in a system header on arm, this still needs a
> workaround.
>
> The differences between gnu99, gnu11, gnu1x and gnu17 are fairly
> minimal and mainly impact warnings at the -Wpedantic level that the
> kernel never enables. Between these, gnu11 is the newest version
> that is supported by all supported compiler versions, though it is
> only the default on gcc-5, while all other supported versions of
> gcc or clang default to gnu1x/gnu17.
>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wiyCH7xeHcmiFJ-YgXUy2Jaj7pnkdKpcovt8fYbVFW3TA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1603
> Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Marco Elver <elver@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@xxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: David Sterba <dsterba@xxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Alex Shi <alexs@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-kbuild@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: llvm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: linux-doc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
> [v3]
> - split out USERCFLAGS to a separate patch
> - add -Wdeclaration-after-statement patch from Mark Rutland
> - leave out C17 reference
> - more rewording the descrption
>
I was able to build and boot on bare metal.
No new warnings in my build-log here after switching to -std=gnu11.
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@xxxxxxxxx> # LLVM/Clang v13.0.0 x86-64
- sed@ -
> [v2]
> - added -std=gnu11 back, rather than just relying on the default
> - minor changes to changelog text
> ---
> Documentation/process/programming-language.rst | 6 +++---
> .../translations/it_IT/process/programming-language.rst | 4 ++--
> .../translations/zh_CN/process/programming-language.rst | 3 +--
> .../translations/zh_TW/process/programming-language.rst | 3 +--
> Makefile | 4 ++--
> arch/arm64/kernel/vdso32/Makefile | 2 +-
> drivers/gpu/drm/i915/Makefile | 1 +
> drivers/staging/greybus/tools/Makefile | 3 ++-
> fs/btrfs/Makefile | 1 +
> scripts/Makefile.extrawarn | 1 +
> 10 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/process/programming-language.rst b/Documentation/process/programming-language.rst
> index ec474a70a02f..5fc9160ca1fa 100644
> --- a/Documentation/process/programming-language.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/process/programming-language.rst
> @@ -5,9 +5,9 @@ Programming Language
>
> The kernel is written in the C programming language [c-language]_.
> More precisely, the kernel is typically compiled with ``gcc`` [gcc]_
> -under ``-std=gnu89`` [gcc-c-dialect-options]_: the GNU dialect of ISO C90
> -(including some C99 features). ``clang`` [clang]_ is also supported, see
> -docs on :ref:`Building Linux with Clang/LLVM <kbuild_llvm>`.
> +under ``-std=gnu11`` [gcc-c-dialect-options]_: the GNU dialect of ISO C11.
> +``clang`` [clang]_ is also supported, see docs on
> +:ref:`Building Linux with Clang/LLVM <kbuild_llvm>`.
>
> This dialect contains many extensions to the language [gnu-extensions]_,
> and many of them are used within the kernel as a matter of course.
> diff --git a/Documentation/translations/it_IT/process/programming-language.rst b/Documentation/translations/it_IT/process/programming-language.rst
> index 41db2598ce11..c1a9b481a6f9 100644
> --- a/Documentation/translations/it_IT/process/programming-language.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/translations/it_IT/process/programming-language.rst
> @@ -10,8 +10,8 @@ Linguaggio di programmazione
>
> Il kernel è scritto nel linguaggio di programmazione C [it-c-language]_.
> Più precisamente, il kernel viene compilato con ``gcc`` [it-gcc]_ usando
> -l'opzione ``-std=gnu89`` [it-gcc-c-dialect-options]_: il dialetto GNU
> -dello standard ISO C90 (con l'aggiunta di alcune funzionalità da C99).
> +l'opzione ``-std=gnu11`` [it-gcc-c-dialect-options]_: il dialetto GNU
> +dello standard ISO C11.
> Linux supporta anche ``clang`` [it-clang]_, leggete la documentazione
> :ref:`Building Linux with Clang/LLVM <kbuild_llvm>`.
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/translations/zh_CN/process/programming-language.rst b/Documentation/translations/zh_CN/process/programming-language.rst
> index 2a47a1d2ec20..fabdc338dbfb 100644
> --- a/Documentation/translations/zh_CN/process/programming-language.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/translations/zh_CN/process/programming-language.rst
> @@ -9,8 +9,7 @@
> ============
>
> 内核是用C语言 :ref:`c-language <cn_c-language>` 编写的。更准确地说,内核通常是用 :ref:`gcc <cn_gcc>`
> -在 ``-std=gnu89`` :ref:`gcc-c-dialect-options <cn_gcc-c-dialect-options>` 下编译的:ISO C90的 GNU 方言(
> -包括一些C99特性)
> +在 ``-std=gnu11`` :ref:`gcc-c-dialect-options <cn_gcc-c-dialect-options>` 下编译的:ISO C11的 GNU 方言
>
> 这种方言包含对语言 :ref:`gnu-extensions <cn_gnu-extensions>` 的许多扩展,当然,它们许多都在内核中使用。
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/translations/zh_TW/process/programming-language.rst b/Documentation/translations/zh_TW/process/programming-language.rst
> index 54e3699eadf8..144bdaf81a41 100644
> --- a/Documentation/translations/zh_TW/process/programming-language.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/translations/zh_TW/process/programming-language.rst
> @@ -12,8 +12,7 @@
> ============
>
> 內核是用C語言 :ref:`c-language <tw_c-language>` 編寫的。更準確地說,內核通常是用 :ref:`gcc <tw_gcc>`
> -在 ``-std=gnu89`` :ref:`gcc-c-dialect-options <tw_gcc-c-dialect-options>` 下編譯的:ISO C90的 GNU 方言(
> -包括一些C99特性)
> +在 ``-std=gnu11`` :ref:`gcc-c-dialect-options <tw_gcc-c-dialect-options>` 下編譯的:ISO C11的 GNU 方言
>
> 這種方言包含對語言 :ref:`gnu-extensions <tw_gnu-extensions>` 的許多擴展,當然,它們許多都在內核中使用。
>
> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
> index 289ce2be8032..94fa9a849a7a 100644
> --- a/Makefile
> +++ b/Makefile
> @@ -515,7 +515,7 @@ KBUILD_CFLAGS := -Wall -Wundef -Werror=strict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs \
> -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -fshort-wchar -fno-PIE \
> -Werror=implicit-function-declaration -Werror=implicit-int \
> -Werror=return-type -Wno-format-security \
> - -std=gnu89
> + -std=gnu11
> KBUILD_CPPFLAGS := -D__KERNEL__
> KBUILD_AFLAGS_KERNEL :=
> KBUILD_CFLAGS_KERNEL :=
> @@ -782,7 +782,7 @@ KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(KBUILD_CFLAGS-y) $(CONFIG_CC_IMPLICIT_FALLTHROUGH)
>
> ifdef CONFIG_CC_IS_CLANG
> KBUILD_CPPFLAGS += -Qunused-arguments
> -# The kernel builds with '-std=gnu89' so use of GNU extensions is acceptable.
> +# The kernel builds with '-std=gnu11' so use of GNU extensions is acceptable.
> KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wno-gnu
> # CLANG uses a _MergedGlobals as optimization, but this breaks modpost, as the
> # source of a reference will be _MergedGlobals and not on of the whitelisted names.
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso32/Makefile b/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso32/Makefile
> index 6c01b63ff56d..9378ea055bf2 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso32/Makefile
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso32/Makefile
> @@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ VDSO_CFLAGS += -Wall -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs \
> -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common \
> -Werror-implicit-function-declaration \
> -Wno-format-security \
> - -std=gnu89
> + -std=gnu11
> VDSO_CFLAGS += -O2
> # Some useful compiler-dependent flags from top-level Makefile
> VDSO_CFLAGS += $(call cc32-option,-Wdeclaration-after-statement,)
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/Makefile b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/Makefile
> index 1b62b9f65196..1618a6e0af4e 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/Makefile
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/Makefile
> @@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ subdir-ccflags-y += -Wno-unused-parameter
> subdir-ccflags-y += -Wno-type-limits
> subdir-ccflags-y += -Wno-missing-field-initializers
> subdir-ccflags-y += -Wno-sign-compare
> +subdir-ccflags-y += -Wno-shift-negative-value
> subdir-ccflags-y += $(call cc-disable-warning, unused-but-set-variable)
> subdir-ccflags-y += $(call cc-disable-warning, frame-address)
> subdir-ccflags-$(CONFIG_DRM_I915_WERROR) += -Werror
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/greybus/tools/Makefile b/drivers/staging/greybus/tools/Makefile
> index ad0ae8053b79..a3bbd73171f2 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/greybus/tools/Makefile
> +++ b/drivers/staging/greybus/tools/Makefile
> @@ -12,7 +12,8 @@ CFLAGS += -std=gnu99 -Wall -Wextra -g \
> -Wredundant-decls \
> -Wcast-align \
> -Wsign-compare \
> - -Wno-missing-field-initializers
> + -Wno-missing-field-initializers \
> + -Wno-shift-negative-value
>
> CC := $(CROSS_COMPILE)gcc
>
> diff --git a/fs/btrfs/Makefile b/fs/btrfs/Makefile
> index 4188ba3fd8c3..99f9995670ea 100644
> --- a/fs/btrfs/Makefile
> +++ b/fs/btrfs/Makefile
> @@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ subdir-ccflags-y += $(condflags)
> subdir-ccflags-y += -Wno-missing-field-initializers
> subdir-ccflags-y += -Wno-sign-compare
> subdir-ccflags-y += -Wno-type-limits
> +subdir-ccflags-y += -Wno-shift-negative-value
>
> obj-$(CONFIG_BTRFS_FS) := btrfs.o
>
> diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.extrawarn b/scripts/Makefile.extrawarn
> index 8be892887d71..650d0b8ceec3 100644
> --- a/scripts/Makefile.extrawarn
> +++ b/scripts/Makefile.extrawarn
> @@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option, -Wstringop-truncation)
> KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wno-missing-field-initializers
> KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wno-sign-compare
> KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wno-type-limits
> +KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wno-shift-negative-value
>
> KBUILD_CPPFLAGS += -DKBUILD_EXTRA_WARN1
>
> --
> 2.29.2
>