Re: linux-next: build warnings after merge of the btrfs tree

From: Stephen Rothwell
Date: Tue Sep 12 2023 - 08:20:24 EST


Hi David,

On Tue, 12 Sep 2023 13:20:11 +0200 David Sterba <dsterba@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I tried 12 and 13, no warnings on x86_64, however the report is on
> powerpc. If this is on a big endian host it could be a valid warning, we
> have an optmization where the on-disk format endianity matches CPU
> (little endian) then the structures btrfs_disk_key and btrfs_key are
> equivalent and no coversion is needed.
>
> There were some changes that might be related and newly added to
> for-next so we don't have any other reference point, I'll take a look.

This is indeed a big endian build (big endian cross build on a little
endian host). I also did *not* get these warnings on my x86_64 build.

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Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell

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