Re: [PATCH -next] mm: fix set but not used warning

[Andrew Morton]

On Tue, 19 Feb 2019 18:28:30 +0000 "Kani, Toshi" <toshi.kani@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Mon, 2019-02-18 at 13:57 +0000, YueHaibing wrote:
> > Fixes gcc '-Wunused-but-set-variable' warning:
> > 
> > lib/ioremap.c: In function 'ioremap_page_range':
> > lib/ioremap.c:203:16: warning:
> >  variable 'start' set but not used [-Wunused-but-set-variable]
> > 
> > flush_cache_vmap may no need param, so add __maybe_unused fix this warning.
> 
> I think flush_cache_vmap should have a proper prototype with
> __maybe_unused for its args.  But, there are so many arch-specific
> definitions at glace, and I am not sure how manageable such change is,
> though...

This is one of the reasons why things like flush_cache_vmap() should
be implemented as static inline C functions, not as macros.