Re: [PATCH] mm/mmu_gather: change __tlb_remove_tlb_entry() to an inline function

[David Hildenbrand]

On 21.02.24 16:45, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>

Hi Arnd,

> clang complains about tlb_remove_tlb_entries() not using the 'ptep' variable
> when __tlb_remove_tlb_entry() is an empty macro:
>
> include/asm-generic/tlb.h:627:10: error: parameter 'ptep' set but not used [-Werror,-Wunused-but-set-parameter]
>
> Change it to an equivalent inline function that avoids the warning since
> the compiler can see how the variable gets passed into it.

Ugh, quite an annoying clang behavior in this particular case. I wonder 
why no build bot complained so far.

Thanks!

> Fixes: 66958b447695 ("mm/mmu_gather: add tlb_remove_tlb_entries()")

That commit id is not stable yet. So Andrew might want to fold it into 
that commit before moving it to mm-stable.


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Cheers,

David / dhildenb