Re: [PATCH] mm/hugepages: fix "orig_pud" set but not used

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Fri Mar 01 2019 - 16:09:56 EST


On Thu, 28 Feb 2019 19:49:03 -0500 Qian Cai <cai@xxxxxx> wrote:

> The commit a00cc7d9dd93 ("mm, x86: add support for PUD-sized transparent
> hugepages") introduced pudp_huge_get_and_clear_full() but no one uses
> its return code, so just make it void.
>
> mm/huge_memory.c: In function 'zap_huge_pud':
> mm/huge_memory.c:1982:8: warning: variable 'orig_pud' set but not used
> [-Wunused-but-set-variable]
> pud_t orig_pud;
> ^~~~~~~~
>
> ...
>
> --- a/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h
> +++ b/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h
> @@ -167,11 +167,11 @@ static inline pmd_t pmdp_huge_get_and_clear_full(struct mm_struct *mm,
> #endif
>
> #ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_PUDP_HUGE_GET_AND_CLEAR_FULL
> -static inline pud_t pudp_huge_get_and_clear_full(struct mm_struct *mm,
> - unsigned long address, pud_t *pudp,
> - int full)
> +static inline void pudp_huge_get_and_clear_full(struct mm_struct *mm,
> + unsigned long address,
> + pud_t *pudp, int full)
> {
> - return pudp_huge_get_and_clear(mm, address, pudp);
> + pudp_huge_get_and_clear(mm, address, pudp);
> }

Not sure this is a good change. Future callers might want that return
value.

> --- a/mm/huge_memory.c
> +++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
> @@ -1979,7 +1979,6 @@ spinlock_t *__pud_trans_huge_lock(pud_t *pud, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
> int zap_huge_pud(struct mmu_gather *tlb, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
> pud_t *pud, unsigned long addr)
> {
> - pud_t orig_pud;
> spinlock_t *ptl;
>
> ptl = __pud_trans_huge_lock(pud, vma);
> @@ -1991,8 +1990,7 @@ int zap_huge_pud(struct mmu_gather *tlb, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
> * pgtable_trans_huge_withdraw after finishing pudp related
> * operations.
> */
> - orig_pud = pudp_huge_get_and_clear_full(tlb->mm, addr, pud,
> - tlb->fullmm);
> + pudp_huge_get_and_clear_full(tlb->mm, addr, pud, tlb->fullmm);

In fact this code perhaps should be passing orig_pud into
pudp_huge_get_and_clear_full(). That could depend on what future
per-arch implementations of pudp_huge_get_and_clear_full() choose to
do.

Anyway, I'll await Matthew's feedback.