Re: [PATCH -next] KVM: x86: remove set but not used variable 'called'

From: Vitaly Kuznetsov
Date: Tue Nov 19 2019 - 06:59:03 EST


Mao Wenan <maowenan@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Fixes gcc '-Wunused-but-set-variable' warning:
>
> arch/x86/kvm/x86.c: In function kvm_make_scan_ioapic_request_mask:
> arch/x86/kvm/x86.c:7911:7: warning: variable called set but not
> used [-Wunused-but-set-variable]
>
> It is not used since commit 7ee30bc132c6 ("KVM: x86: deliver KVM
> IOAPIC scan request to target vCPUs")

Better expressed as

Fixes: 7ee30bc132c6 ("KVM: x86: deliver KVM IOAPIC scan request to target vCPUs")

>
> Signed-off-by: Mao Wenan <maowenan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 5 ++---
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> index 0d0a682..870f0bc 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> @@ -7908,12 +7908,11 @@ void kvm_make_scan_ioapic_request_mask(struct kvm *kvm,
> unsigned long *vcpu_bitmap)
> {
> cpumask_var_t cpus;
> - bool called;
>
> zalloc_cpumask_var(&cpus, GFP_ATOMIC);
>
> - called = kvm_make_vcpus_request_mask(kvm, KVM_REQ_SCAN_IOAPIC,
> - vcpu_bitmap, cpus);
> + kvm_make_vcpus_request_mask(kvm, KVM_REQ_SCAN_IOAPIC,
> + vcpu_bitmap, cpus);

IMHO as kvm_make_vcpus_request_mask() returns value it would probably
make sense to explicitly show that we're not interested in the result,

(void)kvm_make_vcpus_request_mask()

>
> free_cpumask_var(cpus);
> }

--
Vitaly