On Mon 09-01-17 11:47:50, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > The backport of upstream commit 777c6e0daebb ("hotplug: Make > register and unregister notifier API symmetric") to linux-4.4.y > introduced a harmless warning in 'allnoconfig' builds as spotted by > kernelci.org: > > kernel/cpu.c:226:13: warning: 'cpu_notify_nofail' defined but not used [-Wunused-function] Is this warning really worth bothering? Does any stable rely on warning free builds? > So far, this is the only stable tree that is affected, as linux-4.6 and > higher contain commit 984581728eb4 ("cpu/hotplug: Split out cpu down functions") > that makes the function used in all configurations, while older longterm > releases so far don't seem to have a backport of 777c6e0daebb. > > The fix for the warning is trivial: move the unused function back > into the #ifdef section where it was before. this looks good to me. > Link: https://kernelci.org/build/id/586fcacb59b514049ef6c3aa/logs/ > Fixes: 1c0f4e0ebb79 ("hotplug: Make register and unregister notifier API symmetric") in v4.4.y > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> > --- > kernel/cpu.c | 9 +++++---- > 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/kernel/cpu.c b/kernel/cpu.c > index cd6d1258554e..40d20bf5de28 100644 > --- a/kernel/cpu.c > +++ b/kernel/cpu.c > @@ -223,10 +223,6 @@ static int cpu_notify(unsigned long val, void *v) > return __cpu_notify(val, v, -1, NULL); > } > > -static void cpu_notify_nofail(unsigned long val, void *v) > -{ > - BUG_ON(cpu_notify(val, v)); > -} > EXPORT_SYMBOL(register_cpu_notifier); > EXPORT_SYMBOL(__register_cpu_notifier); > > @@ -245,6 +241,11 @@ void __unregister_cpu_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb) > EXPORT_SYMBOL(__unregister_cpu_notifier); > > #ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU > +static void cpu_notify_nofail(unsigned long val, void *v) > +{ > + BUG_ON(cpu_notify(val, v)); > +} > + > /** > * clear_tasks_mm_cpumask - Safely clear tasks' mm_cpumask for a CPU > * @cpu: a CPU id > -- > 2.9.0 > -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html