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* Permit silencing of __deprecated warnings.Jeff Garzik2007-10-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The __deprecated marker is quite useful in highlighting the remnants of old APIs that want removing. However, it is quite normal for one or more years to pass, before the (usually ancient, bitrotten) code in question is either updated or deleted. Thus, like __must_check, add a Kconfig option that permits the silencing of this compiler warning. This change mimics the ifdef-ery and Kconfig defaults of MUST_CHECK as closely as possible. Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Replace __attribute_pure__ with __pureRalf Baechle2007-10-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | To be consistent with the use of attributes in the rest of the kernel replace all use of __attribute_pure__ with __pure and delete the definition of __attribute_pure__. Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org> Cc: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* make __chk_{user,io}_ptr() accept pointers to volatileAl Viro2007-07-26
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* x86: Support __attribute__((__cold__)) in gcc 4.3Andi Kleen2007-07-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | gcc 4.3 supports a new __attribute__((__cold__)) to mark functions cold. Any path directly leading to a call of this function will be unlikely. And gcc will try to generate smaller code for the function itself. Please use with care. The code generation advantage isn't large and in most cases it is not worth uglifying code with this. This patch marks some common error functions like panic(), printk() as cold. This will longer term make many unlikely()s unnecessary, although we can keep them for now for older compilers. BUG is not marked cold because there is currently no way to tell gcc to mark a inline function told. Also all __init and __exit functions are marked cold. With a non -Os build this will tell the compiler to generate slightly smaller code for them. I think it currently only uses less alignments for labels, but that might change in the future. One disadvantage over *likely() is that they cannot be easily instrumented to verify them. Another drawback is that only the latest gcc 4.3 snapshots support this. Unfortunately we cannot detect this using the preprocessor. This means older snapshots will fail now. I don't think that's a problem because they are unreleased compilers that nobody should be using. gcc also has a __hot__ attribute, but I don't see any sense in using this in the kernel right now. But someday I hope gcc will be able to use more aggressive optimizing for hot functions even in -Os, if that happens it should be added. Includes compile fix from Thomas Gleixner. Cc: Jan Hubicka <jh@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* x86_64: Support gcc 5 properlyAndi Kleen2007-05-21
| | | | | | | The ifdef tests were broken. Assume it acts like gcc 4 Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* compiler: introduce __used and __maybe_unusedDavid Rientjes2007-05-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | __used is defined to be __attribute__((unused)) for all pre-3.3 gcc compilers to suppress warnings for unused functions because perhaps they are referenced only in inline assembly. It is defined to be __attribute__((used)) for gcc 3.3 and later so that the code is still emitted for such functions. __maybe_unused is defined to be __attribute__((unused)) for both function and variable use if it could possibly be unreferenced due to the evaluation of preprocessor macros. Function prototypes shall be marked with __maybe_unused if the actual definition of the function is dependant on preprocessor macros. No update to compiler-intel.h is necessary because ICC supports both __attribute__((used)) and __attribute__((unused)) as specified by the gcc manual. __attribute_used__ is deprecated and will be removed once all current code is converted to using __used. Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] Add const to pointer qualifiers for __chk_user_ptr and __chk_io_ptr.Russ Cox2007-03-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Change prototypes for __chk_user_ptr and __chk_io_ptr to take const void* instead of void*, so that code can pass "const void *" to them. (Right now sparse does not warn about passing const void* to void* functions, but that is a separate bug that I believe Josh is working on, and once sparse does check this, the changed prototypes will be necessary.) Signed-off-by: Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com> Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org> Acked-by: Christopher Li <sparse@chrisli.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* include/linux/compiler.h: reject gcc 3 < gcc 3.2Alistair John Strachan2006-12-12
| | | | | | | | The kernel doesn't compile with GCC <3.2, do not allow it to succeed if GCC 3.0.x or 3.1.x are used. Signed-off-by: Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
* [PATCH] Pass sparse the lock expression given to lock annotationsJosh Triplett2006-10-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | The lock annotation macros __acquires, __releases, __acquire, and __release all currently throw away the lock expression passed as an argument. Now that sparse can parse __context__ and __attribute__((context)) with a context expression, pass the lock expression down to sparse as the context expression. This requires a version of sparse from GIT commit 37475a6c1c3e66219e68d912d5eb833f4098fd72 or later. Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Pass a lock expression to __cond_lock, like __acquire and __releaseJosh Triplett2006-09-29
| | | | | | | | | | | Currently, __acquire and __release take a lock expression, but __cond_lock takes only a condition, not the lock acquired if the expression evaluates to true. Change __cond_lock to accept a lock expression, and change all the callers to pass in a lock expression. Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* add CONFIG_ENABLE_MUST_CHECKAndrew Morton2006-09-26
| | | | | | | | | Those 1500 warnings can be a bit of a pain. Add a config option to shut them up. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* Restore __attribute_const__ to user-visibility in linux/compiler.h...for nowDavid Woodhouse2006-05-03
| | | | Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
* Guard some of linux/compiler.h with #ifdef __KERNEL__David Woodhouse2006-05-02
| | | | Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
* [PATCH] Abandon gcc-2.95.xAndrew Morton2006-01-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | There's one scsi driver which doesn't compile due to weird __VA_ARGS__ tricks and the rather useful scsi/sd.c is currently getting an ICE. None of the new SAS code compiles, due to extensive use of anonymous unions. The V4L guys are very good at exploiting the gcc-2.95.x macro expansion bug (_why_ does each driver need to implement its own debug macros?) and various people keep on sneaking in anonymous unions, which are rather nice. Plus anonymous unions are rather useful. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Add deprecated_for_modulesPaul E. McKenney2005-05-01
| | | | | | | | | Add a deprecated_for_modules macro that allows symbols to be deprecated only when used by modules, as suggested by Andrew Morton some months back. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* Linux-2.6.12-rc2v2.6.12-rc2Linus Torvalds2005-04-16
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!