Re: [PATCH -next] mm: Mark undo_dev_pagemap as __maybe_unused

[Andrew Morton]

On Tue,  2 Jul 2019 06:02:03 -0700 Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Several mips builds generate the following build warning.
> 
> mm/gup.c:1788:13: warning: 'undo_dev_pagemap' defined but not used
> 
> The function is declared unconditionally but only called from behind
> various ifdefs. Mark it __maybe_unused.
> 
> ...
>
> --- a/mm/gup.c
> +++ b/mm/gup.c
> @@ -1785,7 +1785,8 @@ static inline pte_t gup_get_pte(pte_t *ptep)
>  }
>  #endif /* CONFIG_GUP_GET_PTE_LOW_HIGH */
>  
> -static void undo_dev_pagemap(int *nr, int nr_start, struct page **pages)
> +static void __maybe_unused undo_dev_pagemap(int *nr, int nr_start,
> +					    struct page **pages)
>  {
>  	while ((*nr) - nr_start) {
>  		struct page *page = pages[--(*nr)];

It's not our preferred way of doing it but yes, it would be a bit of a
mess and a bit of a maintenance burden to get the ifdefs correct.

And really, __maybe_unused isn't a bad way at all - it ensures that the
function always gets build-tested and the compiler will remove it so we
don't have to play the chase-the-ifdefs game.