Re: remove dead bdi congestion leftovers

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Thu Jul 09 2020 - 09:59:06 EST


On 7/8/20 11:32 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 08, 2020 at 05:14:29PM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
>> On 7/1/20 3:06 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>>> Hi Jens,
>>>
>>> we have a lot of bdi congestion related code that is left around without
>>> any use. This series removes it in preparation of sorting out the bdi
>>> lifetime rules properly.
>>
>> Please run series like this through a full compilation, for both this one
>> and the previous series I had to fix up issues like this:
>>
>> drivers/md/bcache/request.c: In function âbch_cached_dev_request_initâ:
>> drivers/md/bcache/request.c:1233:18: warning: unused variable âgâ [-Wunused-variable]
>> 1233 | struct gendisk *g = dc->disk.disk;
>> | ^
>> drivers/md/bcache/request.c: In function âbch_flash_dev_request_initâ:
>> drivers/md/bcache/request.c:1320:18: warning: unused variable âgâ [-Wunused-variable]
>> 1320 | struct gendisk *g = d->disk;
>> | ^
>>
>> Did the same here, applied it.
>
> And just like the previous one I did, and the compiler did not complain.
> There must be something about certain gcc versions not warning about
> variables that are initialized but not otherwise used.

Are you using gcc-10? It sucks for that. gcc-9 seems to reliably hit
these cases for me, not sure why gcc-10 doesn't. And the ones quoted
above are about as trivial as they can get.

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Jens Axboe