[PATCH v1 1/1] compiler_types: Warn about unused static inline functions on second

From: Andy Shevchenko

Date: Thu Nov 06 2025 - 05:50:14 EST


From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Per Nathan, clang catches unused "static inline" functions in C files since
commit 6863f5643dd7 ("kbuild: allow Clang to find unused static inline
functions for W=1 build").

Linus said:

> So I entirely ignore W=1 issues, because I think so many of the extra
> warnings are bogus.
>
> But if this one in particular is causing more problems than most -
> some teams do seem to use W=1 as part of their test builds - it's fine
> to send me a patch that just moves bad warnings to W=2.
>
> And if anybody uses W=2 for their test builds, that's THEIR problem..

Here is the change to bump the warning from W=1 to W=2.

Fixes: 6863f5643dd7 ("kbuild: allow Clang to find unused static inline functions for W=1 build")
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/compiler_types.h | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/compiler_types.h b/include/linux/compiler_types.h
index 59288a2c1ad2..575a03643fa1 100644
--- a/include/linux/compiler_types.h
+++ b/include/linux/compiler_types.h
@@ -253,7 +253,7 @@ struct ftrace_likely_data {
* for W=1 build. This will allow clang to find unused functions. Remove the
* __inline_maybe_unused entirely after fixing most of -Wunused-function warnings.
*/
-#ifdef KBUILD_EXTRA_WARN1
+#ifdef KBUILD_EXTRA_WARN2
#define __inline_maybe_unused
#else
#define __inline_maybe_unused __maybe_unused
--
2.50.1