Re: [GIT PULL] Block driver changes for 5.20-rc1

From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>, Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>,
	"linux-block@vger.kernel.org" <linux-block@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Block driver changes for 5.20-rc1
Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2022 09:16:00 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3af4127a-f453-4cf7-f133-a181cce06f73@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c1b1b619-9142-9818-0536-ce4b97d3e979@kernel.dk>

On 8/2/22 5:08 PM, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On 8/2/22 5:03 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 2, 2022 at 3:59 PM Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> wrote:
>>>
>>> Actually, I'm mistaken, on the build box it's running 11.3. So that
>>> might explain it? I use 12.1 elsewhere.
>>
>> It's possible this -Waddress error is new to gcc-12.
>>
>> I try to keep most of my machines in sync just to avoid the pain of
>> different distro details, so I don't have gcc-11 around any more.
> 
> I'll get gcc-12 back on it - I originally swapped back to 11 for
> building kernels to avoid spurious warnings with the new release.

On the topic of warnings, on my new build box I get a lot of these:

ld: warning: arch/x86/lib/putuser.o: missing .note.GNU-stack section implies executable stack
ld: NOTE: This behaviour is deprecated and will be removed in a future version of the linker

which ends up polluting the output quite a bit.

axboe@r7525 ~> ld --version
GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Debian) 2.38.90.20220713

-- 
Jens Axboe