[PATCH] powerpc: Add configurable -Werror for arch/powerpc

[Michael Ellerman]

On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 19:40 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > Currently this appears to break only one of the defconfigs, chrp32.
> > 
> > http://kisskb.ellerman.id.au/kisskb/head/1907/
> > 
> > And that's a legitimate error AFAICT:
> > 
> > arch/powerpc/platforms/chrp/setup.c:378: error: the frame size of 1040 bytes is larger than 1024 bytes
> > 
> > From:
> > 
> > 367 void
> > 368 chrp_event_scan(unsigned long unused)
> > 369 {
> > 370         unsigned char log[1024];
> > 371         int ret = 0;
> 
> I wonder to what extent we could merge that with the pSeries
> event-scan...

Yeah that occured to me, someone with a chrp machine would need to test
it, do we have one?

> We can have a closer look tomorrow. In any case, stack alloc for that is
> indeed fishy.

The obvious patch to make it static doesn't fly because it's called on
every cpu via a timer, so it needs to be a per-cpu at least I think. Or
borrow the pseries trick of calling it on each cpu in succession, or
just borrow the pseries code.

cheers
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