Re: [PATCH] perf/core: Remove unused function perf_cgroup_event_cgrp_time()

From: Doug Anderson
Date: Fri May 26 2017 - 21:19:30 EST


Hi,

On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 2:51 PM, Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The function was added by commit e5d1367f17ba ("perf: Add cgroup
> support") in 2011 and hasn't been used since then. Removing it fixes the
> following warning when building with clang:
>
> kernel/events/core.c:696:19: error: unused function
> 'perf_cgroup_event_cgrp_time' [-Werror,-Wunused-function]
>
> Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> kernel/events/core.c | 5 -----
> 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
> index 6e75a5c9412d..9058fc7ca1fb 100644
> --- a/kernel/events/core.c
> +++ b/kernel/events/core.c
> @@ -925,11 +925,6 @@ static inline int is_cgroup_event(struct perf_event *event)
> return 0;
> }
>
> -static inline u64 perf_cgroup_event_cgrp_time(struct perf_event *event)
> -{
> - return 0;
> -}
> -
> static inline void update_cgrp_time_from_event(struct perf_event *event)
> {
> }

Definitely seems like no reason to keep this around. FWIW:

Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx>