Re: [PATCH] sched/cputime: Mark function as __maybe_unused

[Steven Rostedt]

On Tue, 18 Aug 2020 13:02:26 -0700
Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 18, 2020 at 12:57 PM Alex Dewar <alex.dewar90@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Aug 18, 2020 at 11:13:10AM -0700, Nick Desaulniers wrote:  
> > > On Tue, Aug 18, 2020 at 10:04 AM Alex Dewar <alex.dewar90@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:  
> > > >
> > > > Depending on config options, account_other_time() may not be called
> > > > anywhere. Add __maybe_unused flag to fix clang warning.  
> > >
> > > Just curious, would moving this definition to be within an existing
> > > preprocessor guard for a particular config also fix the issue? If so,
> > > prefer that. If not, __maybe_unused is the way to go.  
> >
> > I don't think that'd work here: it's used within an "#ifdef
> > CONFIG_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING" block and a separate "#ifdef
> > CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN" one. We could do:
> >         #if defined(CONFIG_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING) ||
> >             defined(CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING)
> >                 ...
> > ... but that might be a bit ugly.  
> 
> Yeah, ok, in that case it's fine.  One issue with __maybe_unused is
> that this function will stick around forever if all call sites get
> removed.  But when the preprocessor checks start getting hairy,
> __maybe_unused is maybe simpler.

For the reasons you state above, I'm almost thinking ugly may be better. :-/

But there's other places that have the "maybe_unused" in the scheduler
code for basically the same reasons, thus I guess it's OK.

Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>

-- Steve


> Acked-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> >  
> > >  
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Alex Dewar <alex.dewar90@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > > ---
> > > >  kernel/sched/cputime.c | 2 +-
> > > >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > > >
> > > > diff --git a/kernel/sched/cputime.c b/kernel/sched/cputime.c
> > > > index 5a55d2300452..43ede0d6661c 100644
> > > > --- a/kernel/sched/cputime.c
> > > > +++ b/kernel/sched/cputime.c
> > > > @@ -252,7 +252,7 @@ static __always_inline u64 steal_account_process_time(u64 maxtime)
> > > >  /*
> > > >   * Account how much elapsed time was spent in steal, irq, or softirq time.
> > > >   */
> > > > -static inline u64 account_other_time(u64 max)
> > > > +static inline u64 __maybe_unused account_other_time(u64 max)
> > > >  {
> > > >         u64 accounted;
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > 2.28.0
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> > > ~Nick Desaulniers  
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