Stop the ad-hoc games with -Wno-maybe-initialized
authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Sat, 9 May 2020 20:57:10 +0000 (13:57 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 20 May 2020 06:20:28 +0000 (08:20 +0200)
commit8f6a84167e8618333d84ea4143812e3e74ced7da
tree890bfff3c62e74e6b159b234d2d6d33dab1f5305
parentab638a49a9f3ae4fcde0ca71b2a7eab87f71275b
Stop the ad-hoc games with -Wno-maybe-initialized

commit 78a5255ffb6a1af189a83e493d916ba1c54d8c75 upstream.

We have some rather random rules about when we accept the
"maybe-initialized" warnings, and when we don't.

For example, we consider it unreliable for gcc versions < 4.9, but also
if -O3 is enabled, or if optimizing for size.  And then various kernel
config options disabled it, because they know that they trigger that
warning by confusing gcc sufficiently (ie PROFILE_ALL_BRANCHES).

And now gcc-10 seems to be introducing a lot of those warnings too, so
it falls under the same heading as 4.9 did.

At the same time, we have a very straightforward way to _enable_ that
warning when wanted: use "W=2" to enable more warnings.

So stop playing these ad-hoc games, and just disable that warning by
default, with the known and straight-forward "if you want to work on the
extra compiler warnings, use W=123".

Would it be great to have code that is always so obvious that it never
confuses the compiler whether a variable is used initialized or not?
Yes, it would.  In a perfect world, the compilers would be smarter, and
our source code would be simpler.

That's currently not the world we live in, though.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Makefile
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kernel/trace/Kconfig