Re: [PATCH] [v2] mm: shmem: avoid build warning for CONFIG_SHMEM=n

From: Mike Rapoport

Date: Thu Dec 04 2025 - 05:55:18 EST


On Thu, Dec 04, 2025 at 11:34:24AM +0100, David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) wrote:
> On 12/4/25 11:28, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> >
> > The newly added 'flags' variable is unused and causes a warning if
> > CONFIG_SHMEM is disabled, since the shmem_acct_size() macro it is passed
> > into does nothing:
> >
> > mm/shmem.c: In function '__shmem_file_setup':
> > mm/shmem.c:5816:23: error: unused variable 'flags' [-Werror=unused-variable]
> > 5816 | unsigned long flags = (vm_flags & VM_NORESERVE) ? SHMEM_F_NORESERVE : 0;
> > | ^~~~~
> >
> > Replace the two macros with equivalent inline functions tto get the
> > argument checking.
> >
> > Fixes: 6ff1610ced56 ("mm: shmem: use SHMEM_F_* flags instead of VM_* flags")
>
> That's still not upstream, right?
>
> $ git tag --contains 6ff1610ced56
> mm-everything-2025-11-29-19-43
> mm-everything-2025-12-03-23-49
> next-20251201
> next-20251203
> next-20251204
>
> So we can likely just squash it into the problematic commit before
> proceeding with it?

It's mm-nonmm-stable, I don't think fixups can go there.

> Thanks Arnd!
>
> --
> Cheers
>
> David

--
Sincerely yours,
Mike.