On 03/05/2019 01:30 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > When CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE is disabled, the only use of the variable 'h' > is compiled out, and the compiler thinks it is unnecessary: > > mm/hmm.c: In function 'hmm_range_snapshot': > mm/hmm.c:1015:19: error: unused variable 'h' [-Werror=unused-variable] > struct hstate *h = hstate_vma(vma); After doing some Kconfig hacks like (ARCH_WANT_GENERAL_HUGETLB = n) on an X86 system I got (HUGETLB_PAGE = n and HMM = y) config. But was unable to hit the build error. Helper is_vm_hugetlb_page() seems to always return false when HUGETLB_PAGE = n. Would not the compiler remove the entire code block including the declaration for 'h' ? #ifdef CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE #include <linux/mm.h> static inline bool is_vm_hugetlb_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma) { return !!(vma->vm_flags & VM_HUGETLB); } #else static inline bool is_vm_hugetlb_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma) { return false; } #endif