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Linus Torvalds 8f6a84167e 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>
2020-05-20 08:20:28 +02:00
arch arm64: fix the flush_icache_range arguments in machine_kexec 2020-05-20 08:20:24 +02:00
block iocost: protect iocg->abs_vdebt with iocg->waitq.lock 2020-05-14 07:58:27 +02:00
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drivers s390/ism: fix error return code in ism_probe() 2020-05-20 08:20:26 +02:00
fs NFSv3: fix rpc receive buffer size for MOUNT call 2020-05-20 08:20:27 +02:00
include pnp: Use list_for_each_entry() instead of open coding 2020-05-20 08:20:27 +02:00
init Stop the ad-hoc games with -Wno-maybe-initialized 2020-05-20 08:20:28 +02:00
ipc ipc/util.c: sysvipc_find_ipc() incorrectly updates position index 2020-05-20 08:20:16 +02:00
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sound ALSA: firewire-lib: fix 'function sizeof not defined' error of tracepoints format 2020-05-20 08:20:19 +02:00
tools selftests/ftrace: Check the first record for kprobe_args_type.tc 2020-05-20 08:20:14 +02:00
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README

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.