[PATCH] powerpc: disable sparse for lib/xor_vmx.c

Daniel Axtens dja at axtens.net
Tue Apr 26 14:58:57 AEST 2016


Sparse doesn't seem to be passing -maltivec around properly, leading
to lots of errors:

.../include/altivec.h:34:2: error: Use the "-maltivec" flag to enable PowerPC AltiVec support
arch/powerpc/lib/xor_vmx.c:27:16: error: Expected ; at end of declaration
arch/powerpc/lib/xor_vmx.c:27:16: error: got signed
arch/powerpc/lib/xor_vmx.c:60:9: error: No right hand side of '*'-expression
arch/powerpc/lib/xor_vmx.c:60:9: error: Expected ; at end of statement
arch/powerpc/lib/xor_vmx.c:60:9: error: got v1_in
...
arch/powerpc/lib/xor_vmx.c:87:9: error: too many errors

Disable sparse checking for xor_vmx.c.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Axtens <dja at axtens.net>
---
 arch/powerpc/lib/xor_vmx.c | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/lib/xor_vmx.c b/arch/powerpc/lib/xor_vmx.c
index 07f49f1568e5..eccf37db9512 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/lib/xor_vmx.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/lib/xor_vmx.c
@@ -17,6 +17,16 @@
  *
  * Author: Anton Blanchard <anton at au.ibm.com>
  */
+
+/*
+ * Sparse (as at v0.5.0) gets very, very confused by this file.
+ * Just disable it.
+ */
+#ifdef __CHECKER__
+#undef __CHECKER__
+#warning "Sparse checking disabled for this file"
+#endif
+
 #include <altivec.h>
 
 #include <linux/preempt.h>
-- 
2.5.0



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