Re: [PATCH v4 08/10] vfio: selftests: Add mlx5 driver - HW init and command interface

Jason Gunthorpe <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-kselftest,dev.linux.lists.patches,org.kernel.vger.kvm,org.kernel.vger.linux-rdma,org.kernel.vger.netdev
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, Aug 12, 2026 at 09:41:28PM +0000, David Matlack wrote:
> On 2026-08-12 11:59 AM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > @@ -0,0 +1,108 @@
> > +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 OR Linux-OpenIB */
> > +/*
> > + * mlx5 VFIO selftest driver - HW definitions
> > + *
> > + * Typed wrappers, constants, and helpers for programming mlx5 hardware
> > + * via the VFIO selftest framework.  Most HW constants and all MLX5_SET/GET
> > + * macros come from the kernel headers (mlx5_ifc.h, mlx5_ifc_macros.h).
> > + */
> > +#ifndef SELFTESTS_VFIO_MLX5_HW_H
> > +#define SELFTESTS_VFIO_MLX5_HW_H
> > +
> > +#include <linux/io.h>
> > +#include <linux/build_bug.h>
> > +#include <vdso/bits.h>
> > +
> > +#include "mlx5_ifc.h"
> > +#include "mlx5_ifc_macros.h"
> 
> I'm getting a compiler warning here when building with clang which is
> getting upgraded to error from -Werror.

I don't get that. My builds have -Wno-gnu-variable-sized-type-not-at-end
which comes from here:

tools/testing/selftests/lib.mk:

# gcc defaults to silence (off) for the following warnings, but clang defaults
# to the opposite. The warnings are not useful for the kernel itself, which is
# why they have remained disabled in gcc for the main kernel build. And it is
# only due to including kernel data structures in the selftests, that we get the
# warnings from clang. Therefore, disable the warnings for clang builds.
CFLAGS += -Wno-address-of-packed-member
CFLAGS += -Wno-gnu-variable-sized-type-not-at-end

Why doesn't yours? Are you building it correctly?

Jason
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