Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 9 Sep 2011 22:27:19 -0700 | From | Dan Carpenter <> | Subject | Re: improper sparse warnings in linux kernel build? |
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On Fri, Sep 09, 2011 at 03:41:28PM -0700, H Hartley Sweeten wrote: > I'm not really sure what the DEFINE_PER_CPU macro expands to so I'm not > sure if the 'static' in front is actually getting used or if sparse is just > confused. > > Is this an actual problem in the linux kernel or is sparse just getting > tripped up by the DEFINE_PER_CPU macro? >
I don't have a kernel git archive handy, but probably sparse is correct. Do a "make arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_intel.i" and run sparse on the .i file to find the line number that complains.
regards, dan carpenter
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