Re: [PATCH] staging: rtl8723bs: Mark ACPI table declaration as used

[Nick Desaulniers]

On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 10:16 PM Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 04:20:55PM -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> > Clang emits the following warning:
> >
> > drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/sdio_intf.c:25:36: warning: variable
> > 'acpi_ids' is not needed and will not be emitted
> > [-Wunneeded-internal-declaration]
> > static const struct acpi_device_id acpi_ids[] = {
> >                                    ^
> > 1 warning generated.
> >
> > Mark acpi_ids with the attribute __used, which makes it clear to Clang
> > that we don't want this warning while not inhibiting Clang's dead code
> > elimination from removing the unreferenced internal symbol when moving
> > the data to the globally available symbol with MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE.
> >
> > $ nm -S drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/sdio_intf.o | grep acpi
> > 0000000000000000 0000000000000040 R __mod_acpi__acpi_ids_device_table
> >
> > Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/169
> > Suggested-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/sdio_intf.c | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/sdio_intf.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/sdio_intf.c
> > index 6d02904de63f..7c03b69b8ed3 100644
> > --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/sdio_intf.c
> > +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/sdio_intf.c
> > @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ static const struct sdio_device_id sdio_ids[] =
> >       { SDIO_DEVICE(0x024c, 0xb723), },
> >       { /* end: all zeroes */                         },
> >  };
> > -static const struct acpi_device_id acpi_ids[] = {
> > +static const struct acpi_device_id acpi_ids[] __used = {
>
> Can't we put __used somewhere in the MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() macro so we
> don't have to go adding it to all individual entries?

Maybe; I'm still trying to think of what we could do in that macro to
make its arg appear to be used while still being no functional change.

This is not a million-little-commits problem; more like 2 drivers in
the whole tree have this problem.

Note that this change that Nathan has DOES NOT need to applied to
every driver that uses MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE.  Only when the struct has
no other references other than JUST being passed to
MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() is this a problem.  For an allyesconfig, I only
see 2 instances of this case in the whole tree:

https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/169 <- this patch is addressing
https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/178 <- waiting on the
results of this patch

If you're ok with this change to two drivers, then:
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx>
-- 
Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers