Hello Michael,
On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 01:02:45PM +1000, Michael Neuling wrote:
> This doesn't compile for me with:
>
> arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c: In function ‘smp_prepare_cpus’:
> arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c:812:23: error: ‘tg.threads_per_group’ may be used
> uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
> struct thread_groups tg;
> ^
> arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c:812:23: error: ‘tg.nr_groups’ may be used
> uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
> cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
> /home/mikey/src/linux-ozlabs/scripts/Makefile.build:305: recipe for target
> 'arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.o' failed
>
I couldn't get this error with gcc 4.8.5 and 8.1.1 with
pseries_defconfig and powernv_defconfig with CONFIG_PPC_WERROR=y.
Does the following the following delta patch make it work?
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>From 6699ce20573dddd0d3d45ea79015751880740e9b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Gautham R. Shenoy" <e...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2018 22:43:05 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] powerpc/smp: Initialize thread_groups local variable
Signed-off-by: Gautham R. Shenoy <e...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c
index 5cdcf44..356751e 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c
@@ -809,8 +809,9 @@ static int init_cpu_l1_cache_map(int cpu)
{
struct device_node *dn = of_get_cpu_node(cpu, NULL);
- struct thread_groups tg;
-
+ struct thread_groups tg = {.property = 0,
+ .nr_groups = 0,
+ .threads_per_group = 0};
int first_thread = cpu_first_thread_sibling(cpu);
int i, cpu_group_start = -1, err = 0;
--
1.9.4
