Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.
Jose E. Marchesi
authored
[Changes from V1:
- The warning to disable is -Wmaybe-uninitialized, not -Wuninitialized.
- This warning is only supported in GCC.]
The BPF selftest verifier_global_subprogs.c contains code that
purposedly performs out of bounds access to memory, to check whether
the kernel verifier is able to catch them. For example:
__noinline int global_unsupp(const int *mem)
{
if (!mem)
return 0;
return mem[100]; /* BOOM */
}
With -O1 and higher and no inlining, GCC notices this fact and emits a
"maybe uninitialized" warning. This is by design. Note that the
emission of these warnings is highly dependent on the precise
optimizations that are performed.
This patch adds a compiler pragma to verifier_global_subprogs.c to
ignore these warnings.
Tested in bpf-next master.
No regressions.
Signed-off-by: 
Jose E. Marchesi <jose.marchesi@oracle.com>
Cc: david.faust@oracle.com
Cc: cupertino.miranda@oracle.com
Cc: Yonghong Song <yonghong.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Acked-by: 
Yonghong Song <yonghong.song@linux.dev>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240507184756.1772-1-jose.marchesi@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: 
Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>