The following commit has been merged into the x86/cleanups branch of tip: Commit-ID: 85784470efa2d5733e86679ba05d310ece81b20f Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/85784470efa2d5733e86679ba05d310ece81b20f Author: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> AuthorDate: Fri, 10 Sep 2021 12:44:05 -06:00 Committer: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx> CommitterDate: Fri, 17 Sep 2021 21:20:34 +02:00 x86/smp: Remove unnecessary assignment to local var freq_scale Coverity warns of an unused value in arch_scale_freq_tick(): CID 100778 (#1 of 1): Unused value (UNUSED_VALUE) assigned_value: Assigning value 1024ULL to freq_scale here, but that stored value is overwritten before it can be used. It was introduced by commit: e2b0d619b400a ("x86, sched: check for counters overflow in frequency invariant accounting") Remove the variable initializer. Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Giovanni Gherdovich <ggherdovich@xxxxxxx> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210910184405.24422-1-tim.gardner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx --- arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c b/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c index 85f6e24..c453b82 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c @@ -2166,7 +2166,7 @@ DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned long, arch_freq_scale) = SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE; void arch_scale_freq_tick(void) { - u64 freq_scale = SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE; + u64 freq_scale; u64 aperf, mperf; u64 acnt, mcnt;