Re: [PATCH 08/12] s390: syscall_wrapper: avoid clang warning

From: Martin Schwidefsky
Date: Wed Apr 10 2019 - 12:00:55 EST


On Mon, 8 Apr 2019 23:26:21 +0200
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Building system calls with clang results in a warning
> about an alias from a global function to a static one:
>
> ../fs/namei.c:3847:1: warning: unused function '__se_sys_mkdirat' [-Wunused-function]
> SYSCALL_DEFINE3(mkdirat, int, dfd, const char __user *, pathname, umode_t, mode)
> ^
> ../include/linux/syscalls.h:219:36: note: expanded from macro 'SYSCALL_DEFINE3'
> #define SYSCALL_DEFINE3(name, ...) SYSCALL_DEFINEx(3, _##name, __VA_ARGS__)
> ^
> ../include/linux/syscalls.h:228:2: note: expanded from macro 'SYSCALL_DEFINEx'
> __SYSCALL_DEFINEx(x, sname, __VA_ARGS__)
> ^
> ../arch/s390/include/asm/syscall_wrapper.h:126:18: note: expanded from macro '__SYSCALL_DEFINEx'
> asmlinkage long __se_sys##name(__MAP(x,__SC_LONG,__VA_ARGS__)) \
> ^
> <scratch space>:31:1: note: expanded from here
> __se_sys_mkdirat
> ^
>
> The only reference to the static __se_sys_mkdirat() here is the alias, but
> this only gets evaluated later. Making this function global as well avoids
> the warning.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>

Added to s390/linux:features for the next merge window. Thanks.

--
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Martin.

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