Re: 2e685cad5790 build warning

From: Johannes Weiner
Date: Wed Dec 04 2013 - 17:47:29 EST


[ botched linux-kernel address in the first try ]

On Wed, Dec 04, 2013 at 05:29:43PM -0500, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> Hi Eric,
>
> commit 2e685cad57906e19add7189b5ff49dfb6aaa21d3
> Author: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Sat Oct 19 16:26:19 2013 -0700
>
> tcp_memcontrol: Kill struct tcp_memcontrol
>
> Replace the pointers in struct cg_proto with actual data fields and kill
> struct tcp_memcontrol as it is not fully redundant.
>
> This removes a confusing, unnecessary layer of abstraction.
>
> Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> triggers a build warning because it removed the only reference to a
> function but not the function itself:
>
> linux/net/ipv4/tcp_memcontrol.c:9:13: warning: âmemcg_tcp_enter_memory_pressureâ defined but not used [-Wunused-function]
> static void memcg_tcp_enter_memory_pressure(struct sock *sk)
>
> I can not see from the changelog why this function is no longer used,
> or who is supposed to now set cg_proto->memory_pressure which you
> still initialize etc. Either way, the current state does not seem to
> make much sense. The author would be the best person to double check
> such changes, but he wasn't copied on your patch, so I copied him now.
>
> Apologies if this has been brought up before, I could not find any
> reference on LKML of either this patch or a report of this warning.
>
> Thanks!
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