[tip: sched/hrtick] sched/hrtick: Mark hrtick_clear() as always used

From: tip-bot2 for Ingo Molnar

Date: Mon Mar 02 2026 - 06:30:27 EST


The following commit has been merged into the sched/hrtick branch of tip:

Commit-ID: d50da4b5915f13443431284d8c77df0820efaa6b
Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/d50da4b5915f13443431284d8c77df0820efaa6b
Author: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Mon, 02 Mar 2026 12:16:30 +01:00
Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
CommitterDate: Mon, 02 Mar 2026 12:20:51 +01:00

sched/hrtick: Mark hrtick_clear() as always used

This recent commit:

96d1610e0b20b ("sched: Optimize hrtimer handling")

introduced a new build warning when !CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU
while SCHED_HRTIMERS=y [ == HIGH_RES_TIMERS=y ]:

/tip.testing/kernel/sched/core.c:882:13: warning: ‘hrtick_clear’ defined but not used [-Wunused-function]

Mark this helper function as always-used, instead of complicating
the code with another obscure #ifdef.

Fixes: 96d1610e0b20b ("sched: Optimize hrtimer handling")
Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/sched/core.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index 55550c6..d264733 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -879,7 +879,7 @@ enum {
HRTICK_SCHED_REARM_HRTIMER = BIT(3)
};

-static void hrtick_clear(struct rq *rq)
+static void __used hrtick_clear(struct rq *rq)
{
if (hrtimer_active(&rq->hrtick_timer))
hrtimer_cancel(&rq->hrtick_timer);