Re: [PATCH] checksyscalls: ignore -Wunused-macros

[Vincent MAILHOL]

On Mon. 25 Apr 2022 at 15:50, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 25, 2022 at 8:17 AM Vincent MAILHOL
> <mailhol.vincent@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Mon. 25 Apr 2022 at 07:17, Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Hi Vincent,
> > >
> > > On Sat, Apr 23, 2022 at 12:17:25AM +0900, Vincent Mailhol wrote:
> > > > The macros defined in this file are for testing only and are purposely
> > > > not used. When compiled with W=2, both gcc and clang yield some
> > > > -Wunused-macros warnings. Ignore them.
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Vincent Mailhol <mailhol.vincent@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > The change itself looks fine but a couple of comments:
> > >
> > > 1. Nick and I do not pick up patches, we rely on others to do so.
> > >    Additionally, this is not really something within our domain, despite
> > >    what get_maintainer.pl might say. This change should be sent to
> > >    either
> > >
> > >    Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > >    linux-kbuild@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > >
> > >    or
> > >
> > >    Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > >    so that it can be applied by one of them.
> >
> > Ack. As you pointed out, I indeed just followed get_maintainer.pl.
> > I will resend a v2 to the people you pointed out (and exclude you).
> >
> > > 2. I am not sure that silencing warnings from W=2 is that useful, as
> > >    they are unlikely to be real issues. Not to discourage you by any
> > >    means but it might be more useful to focus on cleaning up warnings
> > >    from W=1 and getting those promoted to regular build warnings.
> >
> > Normally I agree, but there is one reason to fix this W=2: this
> > warning appears when building other files.
> >
> > Example:
> > | $ make W=2 drivers/net/dummy.o
> > |   CALL    scripts/checksyscalls.sh
> > | <stdin>:21: warning: macro "__IGNORE_stat64" is not used [-Wunused-macros]
> > | <stdin>:22: warning: macro "__IGNORE_lstat64" is not used [-Wunused-macros]
> > | <stdin>:75: warning: macro "__IGNORE_llseek" is not used [-Wunused-macros]
> > | <stdin>:159: warning: macro "__IGNORE_madvise1" is not used [-Wunused-macros]
> > (rest of the output redacted).
> >
> > When I run W=2, I want to only see the warnings of the file I am
> > working on. So I find it useful to fix the W=2 warnings which
> > show up when building other files to not get spammed by
> > irrelevant issues and to simplify the triage.
> >
> > My initial message lacked the rationale. I will add additional
> > explanations in the v2 of this patch.
>
> I agree this is worth fixing if we want to make W=2 have any meaning at all.
>
> Your approach is probably fine. We could try to improve this by comparing
> against the list from include/uapi/asm-generic/unistd.h instead of the i386
> list. I suppose that would involve rewriting the script into a simpler one,
> but I'm not sure if anyone has an interest in working on this.

If someone wants to do it, great, but I do not have the
confidence to do it myself so I hope you will forgive me for
taking a pass here.

Another alternative I considered was to only call
checksyscalls.sh when doing a 'make all'. This way, we keep the
warning but people won’t be spammed when building sub projects
because the script would not be executed.

I tried to be as less disruptive as possible. Unless people show
interest in one of the alternative approaches, I will keep using
the -Wno-unused-macros approach in the v2.

> diff --git a/scripts/checksyscalls.sh b/scripts/checksyscalls.sh
> index 9dbab13329fa..cde15f22ec98 100755
> --- a/scripts/checksyscalls.sh
> +++ b/scripts/checksyscalls.sh
> @@ -255,6 +255,7 @@ cat << EOF
>  /* 64-bit ports never needed these, and new 32-bit ports can use statx */
>  #define __IGNORE_fstat64
>  #define __IGNORE_fstatat64
> +

Just realized that I added a new line for no reason.
This will be removed in v2. Sorry.

>  EOF
>  }
>
> @@ -268,4 +269,4 @@ syscall_list() {
>  }
>
>  (ignore_list && syscall_list $(dirname $0)/../arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl) | \
> -$* -Wno-error -E -x c - > /dev/null
> +$* -Wno-error -Wno-unused-macros -E -x c - > /dev/null
> --
> 2.35.1

Yours sincerely,
Vincent Mailhol