Re: [PATCH] mm/slub: quiet the clang warning with -Wunused-function enabled

From: xiongwei . song
Date: Tue Jul 09 2024 - 23:16:20 EST


July 10, 2024 at 11:03 AM, "Matthew Wilcox" <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:



>
> On Wed, Jul 10, 2024 at 10:54:18AM +0800, sxwjean@xxxxxx wrote:
>
> >
> > From: Xiongwei Song <xiongwei.song@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> >
> >
> > The only user of prepare_slab_obj_exts_hook() is
> >
> > alloc_tagging_slab_alloc_hook(), which can build with
> >
> > CONFIG_MEM_ALLOC_PROFILING enabled. So, the warning was triggerred
> >
> > when disabling CONFIG_MEM_ALLOC_PROFILING. Let's add "__maybe_unused"
> >
> > for prepare_slab_obj_exts_hook().
> >
>
> Perhaps instead clang can be fixed to match gcc's behaviour?

Maybe, I'm not sure.

Thanks,
Xiongwei

>
> >
> > Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202407050845.zNONqauD-lkp@xxxxxxxxx/
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Xiongwei Song <xiongwei.song@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > ---
> >
> > mm/slub.c | 4 ++--
> >
> > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> >
> >
> > diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
> >
> > index ce39544acf7c..2e26f20759c0 100644
> >
> > --- a/mm/slub.c
> >
> > +++ b/mm/slub.c
> >
> > @@ -2027,7 +2027,7 @@ static inline bool need_slab_obj_ext(void)
> >
> > return false;
> >
> > }
> >
> >
> >
> > -static inline struct slabobj_ext *
> >
> > +static inline struct slabobj_ext * __maybe_unused
> >
> > prepare_slab_obj_exts_hook(struct kmem_cache *s, gfp_t flags, void *p)
> >
> > {
> >
> > struct slab *slab;
> >
> > @@ -2068,7 +2068,7 @@ static inline bool need_slab_obj_ext(void)
> >
> > return false;
> >
> > }
> >
> >
> >
> > -static inline struct slabobj_ext *
> >
> > +static inline struct slabobj_ext * __maybe_unused
> >
> > prepare_slab_obj_exts_hook(struct kmem_cache *s, gfp_t flags, void *p)
> >
> > {
> >
> > return NULL;
> >
> > --
> >
> > 2.34.1
> >
>