Re: [PATCH 4.14 054/293] sched/fair: Fix "runnable_avg_yN_inv" not used warnings

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On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 11:28:01AM -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 09:19:05PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > [ Upstream commit 509466b7d480bc5d22e90b9fbe6122ae0e2fbe39 ]
> > 
> > runnable_avg_yN_inv[] is only used in kernel/sched/pelt.c but was
> > included in several other places because they need other macros all
> > came from kernel/sched/sched-pelt.h which was generated by
> > Documentation/scheduler/sched-pelt. As the result, it causes compilation
> > a lot of warnings,
> > 
> >   kernel/sched/sched-pelt.h:4:18: warning: 'runnable_avg_yN_inv' defined but not used [-Wunused-const-variable=]
> >   kernel/sched/sched-pelt.h:4:18: warning: 'runnable_avg_yN_inv' defined but not used [-Wunused-const-variable=]
> >   kernel/sched/sched-pelt.h:4:18: warning: 'runnable_avg_yN_inv' defined but not used [-Wunused-const-variable=]
> >   ...
> > 
> > Silence it by appending the __maybe_unused attribute for it, so all
> > generated variables and macros can still be kept in the same file.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Qian Cai <cai@xxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1559596304-31581-1-git-send-email-cai@xxxxxx
> > Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  Documentation/scheduler/sched-pelt.c | 3 ++-
> >  kernel/sched/sched-pelt.h            | 2 +-
> >  2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/Documentation/scheduler/sched-pelt.c b/Documentation/scheduler/sched-pelt.c
> > index e4219139386a..7238b355919c 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/scheduler/sched-pelt.c
> > +++ b/Documentation/scheduler/sched-pelt.c
> > @@ -20,7 +20,8 @@ void calc_runnable_avg_yN_inv(void)
> >  	int i;
> >  	unsigned int x;
> >  
> > -	printf("static const u32 runnable_avg_yN_inv[] = {");
> > +	/* To silence -Wunused-but-set-variable warnings. */
> > +	printf("static const u32 runnable_avg_yN_inv[] __maybe_unused = {");
> >  	for (i = 0; i < HALFLIFE; i++) {
> >  		x = ((1UL<<32)-1)*pow(y, i);
> >  
> > diff --git a/kernel/sched/sched-pelt.h b/kernel/sched/sched-pelt.h
> > index a26473674fb7..c529706bed11 100644
> > --- a/kernel/sched/sched-pelt.h
> > +++ b/kernel/sched/sched-pelt.h
> > @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
> >  /* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
> >  /* Generated by Documentation/scheduler/sched-pelt; do not modify. */
> >  
> > -static const u32 runnable_avg_yN_inv[] = {
> > +static const u32 runnable_avg_yN_inv[] __maybe_unused = {
> >  	0xffffffff, 0xfa83b2da, 0xf5257d14, 0xefe4b99a, 0xeac0c6e6, 0xe5b906e6,
> >  	0xe0ccdeeb, 0xdbfbb796, 0xd744fcc9, 0xd2a81d91, 0xce248c14, 0xc9b9bd85,
> >  	0xc5672a10, 0xc12c4cc9, 0xbd08a39e, 0xb8fbaf46, 0xb504f333, 0xb123f581,
> > -- 
> > 2.20.1
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> This patch does nothing in 4.14. There is no kernel/sched/pelt.c.
> 
> $ fd pelt
> kernel/sched/sched-pelt.h
> Documentation/scheduler/sched-pelt.c
> 
> runnable_avg_yN_inv is only used in one location in 4.14.134, in fair.c
> behind CONFIG_SMP, which is also the guard that includes sched-pelt.h.
> 
> $ rg --no-heading -g '!Documentation' runnable_avg_yN_inv
> kernel/sched/sched-pelt.h:4:static const u32 runnable_avg_yN_inv[] = {
> kernel/sched/fair.c:2849:       val = mul_u64_u32_shr(val, runnable_avg_yN_inv[local_n], 32);
> 
> $ rg --no-heading -B 2 "sched-pelt.h"
> kernel/sched/fair.c-707-#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
> kernel/sched/fair.c-708-
> kernel/sched/fair.c:709:#include "sched-pelt.h"
> 
> I see no way for the warnings in this patch to occur here, making it
> pointless. I get two trivial conflicts in my msm-4.14 tree from this
> patch that I would like to avoid dealing with.
> 
> Please consider dropping this patch, thanks!

Now dropped, thanks.

greg k-h



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