On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 12:56 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 12:51 PM Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 12:08:40PM +0100, Jann Horn wrote:
> > > > Since commit acaab7335bd6 ("lib/zlib: remove outdated and incorrect
> > > > pre-increment optimization"), get_unaligned16() is only used when
> > > > !CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS.
> > > >
> > > > Hence, make CC=clang W=1 warns:
> > > >
> > > > lib/zlib_inflate/inffast.c:20:1:
> > > > warning: unused function 'get_unaligned16' [-Wunused-function]
> > > >
> > > > Define get_unaligned16() only when it is actually used.
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@xxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > AFAICS a nicer option would be to "#include <asm/unaligned.h>" and
> > > then use "get_unaligned", which should automatically do the right
> > > thing everywhere and remove the need for defining get_unaligned16()
> > > and checking CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS entirely?
> >
> > Yes, that is the right thing to do.
>
> It's possible that this didn't work when the code was originally added:
> The decompressor functions are called from the compressed boot path,
> which is a bit limited regarding which headers it can include, at least
> on some architectures.
>
> I would recommend test-building this for all architectures that include
> ../../../../lib/decompress_inflate.c from their boot code.
>
Jann, Christoph, Arnd, thanks for the advice. I will start to look
into this immediately.
Lukas
