Re: [PATCH] drivers: firmware: psci: make two helper functions inline

[Jisheng Zhang]

Dear Arnd,

On Tue, 26 Apr 2016 02:16:17 +0200 Arnd Bergmann wrote:

> The previous patch marked these two as 'static' which showed that they
> are sometimes unused:
> 
> drivers/firmware/psci.c:103:13: error: 'psci_power_state_is_valid' defined but not used [-Werror=unused-function]
>  static bool psci_power_state_is_valid(u32 state)
> drivers/firmware/psci.c:94:13: error: 'psci_power_state_loses_context' defined but not used [-Werror=unused-function]
>  static bool psci_power_state_loses_context(u32 state)
> 
> This also marks the functions 'inline', which has the main effect of
> silently ignoring them when they are unused. The compiler will typically
> inline small static functions anyway, so this seems more appropriate
> than using __maybe_unused, which would have the same result otherwise.

oops, yes. When preparing the patch, I also thought about making them inline.
But forget to do so.

Thanks for the fix,
Jisheng

> 
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> Fixes: 21e8868 ("drivers: firmware: psci: make two helper functions static")
> ---
>  drivers/firmware/psci.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/firmware/psci.c b/drivers/firmware/psci.c
> index 04f2ac5..89fcbdd 100644
> --- a/drivers/firmware/psci.c
> +++ b/drivers/firmware/psci.c
> @@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ static inline bool psci_has_ext_power_state(void)
>  				PSCI_1_0_FEATURES_CPU_SUSPEND_PF_MASK;
>  }
>  
> -static bool psci_power_state_loses_context(u32 state)
> +static inline bool psci_power_state_loses_context(u32 state)
>  {
>  	const u32 mask = psci_has_ext_power_state() ?
>  					PSCI_1_0_EXT_POWER_STATE_TYPE_MASK :
> @@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ static bool psci_power_state_loses_context(u32 state)
>  	return state & mask;
>  }
>  
> -static bool psci_power_state_is_valid(u32 state)
> +static inline bool psci_power_state_is_valid(u32 state)
>  {
>  	const u32 valid_mask = psci_has_ext_power_state() ?
>  			       PSCI_1_0_EXT_POWER_STATE_MASK :