Re: [PATCH] kprobes: remove sparse warnings from x86

From: Masami Hiramatsu
Date: Thu Feb 14 2008 - 10:08:46 EST


Harvey Harrison :
> arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.c:584:16: warning: symbol 'kretprobe_trampoline_holder' was not declared. Should it be static?
> arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.c:676:6: warning: symbol 'trampoline_handler' was not declared. Should it be static?
>
> Make them static and add the __used attribute, approach taken from the
> arm kprobes implementation.
>
> kretprobe_trampoline_holder uses inline assemly to define the global
> symbol kretprobe_trampoline, but nothing ever calls the holder explicitly.
>
> trampoline handler is only called from inline assembly in the same file,
> mark it used and static.
>
> Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@xxxxxxxxx>

It looks good to me.

Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thank you,

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Masami Hiramatsu

Software Engineer
Hitachi Computer Products (America) Inc.
Software Solutions Division

e-mail: mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx

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