branch tracer: Fix for enabling branch profiling makes sparse unusable
One of the changes between kernels 2.6.28 and 2.6.29 is that a branch profiler has been added for if() statements. Unfortunately this patch makes the sparse output unusable with CONFIG_TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING=y: when branch profiling is enabled, sparse prints so much false positives that the real issues are no longer visible. This behavior can be reproduced as follows: * enable CONFIG_TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING, e.g. by running make allyesconfig or make allmodconfig. * run make C=2 Result: a huge number of the following sparse warnings. ... include/linux/cpumask.h:547:2: warning: symbol '______r' shadows an earlier one include/linux/cpumask.h:547:2: originally declared here ... The patch below fixes this by disabling branch profiling while analyzing the kernel code with sparse. See also: * http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/11/21/18 * http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12925 Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@gmail.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <200904051620.02311.bart.vanassche@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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