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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: alexey.zaytsev@gmail.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu, rostedt@goodmis.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Disable branch profiling macros when sparsed.
Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 22:13:48 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090109.221348.166902734.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090110052727.5471.3654.stgit@zaytsev.su>

From: Alexey Zaytsev <alexey.zaytsev@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 08:57:28 +0300

> The macros produce lots of unneeded warnings when
> recursive if(({ .. if() {..} ..})) {..} and such
> are substituted. And there is no point in sparsing
> them anyway. This is useful if someone decides to
> sparse an allyesconfig kernel.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Zaytsev <alexey.zaytsev@gmail.com>

If even sparse can't handle these things, it's no surprise
how many gcc bogus warning problems we've run into because
of this hairy if() macro.

I don't think it's a good precedence to do this.  It's giving
up on trying to implement the branch tracer in a way that
results in a kernel build that produces useful warnings.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-10  6:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-10  5:57 Alexey Zaytsev
2009-01-10  6:13 ` David Miller [this message]
2009-01-10  7:18   ` Harvey Harrison
2009-01-10  9:35     ` Alexey Zaytsev
2009-01-10 21:33       ` Harvey Harrison
2009-01-10 23:04         ` Steven Rostedt

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