Disable "maybe-uninitialized" warning globally
Several build configurations had already disabled this warning because
it generates a lot of false positives. But some had not, and it was
still enabled for "allmodconfig" builds, for example.
Looking at the warnings produced, every single one I looked at was a
false positive, and the warnings are frequent enough (and big enough)
that they can easily hide real problems that you don't notice in the
noise generated by -Wmaybe-uninitialized.
The warning is good in theory, but this is a classic case of a warning
that causes more problems than the warning can solve.
If gcc gets better at avoiding false positives, we may be able to
re-enable this warning. But as is, we're better off without it, and I
want to be able to see the *real* warnings.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 776b6a3..d384848 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -370,7 +370,7 @@
CFLAGS_KERNEL =
AFLAGS_KERNEL =
LDFLAGS_vmlinux =
-CFLAGS_GCOV = -fprofile-arcs -ftest-coverage -fno-tree-loop-im -Wno-maybe-uninitialized
+CFLAGS_GCOV = -fprofile-arcs -ftest-coverage -fno-tree-loop-im
CFLAGS_KCOV = -fsanitize-coverage=trace-pc
@@ -619,12 +619,13 @@
include arch/$(SRCARCH)/Makefile
KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-fno-delete-null-pointer-checks,)
+KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-disable-warning,maybe-uninitialized,)
ifdef CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
-KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Os $(call cc-disable-warning,maybe-uninitialized,)
+KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Os
else
ifdef CONFIG_PROFILE_ALL_BRANCHES
-KBUILD_CFLAGS += -O2 $(call cc-disable-warning,maybe-uninitialized,)
+KBUILD_CFLAGS += -O2
else
KBUILD_CFLAGS += -O2
endif