Can be reproduced with "make EXTRA_CFLAGS='-O1'" command using
gcc (GCC) 9.3.1 20200408 (Red Hat 9.3.1-2)
Build error:
In file included from .../drivers/mempool/octeontx2/otx2_mempool.h:13,
from .../drivers/mempool/octeontx2/otx2_mempool_ops.c:8:
.../drivers/mempool/octeontx2/otx2_mempool_ops.c:
In function ‘otx2_npa_alloc’:
.../drivers/common/octeontx2/otx2_common.h:94:2:
error: ‘aura_handle’ may be used uninitialized in this function
[-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
94 | rte_log(RTE_LOG_DEBUG, otx2_logtype_ ## subsystem, \
| ^~~~~~~
.../drivers/mempool/octeontx2/otx2_mempool_ops.c:643:11:
note: ‘aura_handle’ was declared here
643 | uint64_t aura_handle;
| ^~~~~~~~~~~
This looks like false positive, assigning an initial value to
'aura_handle' to fix the build error.
Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yi...@intel.com>
---
This is assuming assigning initial value won't have a performance affect
if it does, we need to find another fix.
And overall not sure why this false positive warning is generated.
---
drivers/mempool/octeontx2/otx2_mempool_ops.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/mempool/octeontx2/otx2_mempool_ops.c
b/drivers/mempool/octeontx2/otx2_mempool_ops.c
index 162b7f01da..078ffac3e2 100644
--- a/drivers/mempool/octeontx2/otx2_mempool_ops.c
+++ b/drivers/mempool/octeontx2/otx2_mempool_ops.c
@@ -640,7 +640,7 @@ otx2_npa_alloc(struct rte_mempool *mp)
struct otx2_npa_lf *lf;
struct npa_aura_s aura;
struct npa_pool_s pool;
- uint64_t aura_handle;
+ uint64_t aura_handle = 0;
size_t padding;
int rc;
--
2.25.4
