linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] efi: Remove unnecessary (and buggy) .memmap initialization from the Xen EFI driver

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Date:	Fri, 29 Apr 2016 09:39:35 +0100
From:	Matt Fleming <matt@...eblueprint.co.uk>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, peterz@...radead.org,
	ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org, bp@...en8.de, tglx@...utronix.de,
	tony.luck@...el.com, hpa@...or.com,
	linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] efi: Remove unnecessary (and buggy) .memmap
 initialization from the Xen EFI driver

On Fri, 29 Apr, at 10:31:28AM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> So this commit triggered the follwing build warning on x86 64-bit allyesconfig:
 
Doh! I wonder why the 0day bot didn't tell me about this?

> It's this initialization in drivers/xen/efi.c:
> 
>   static const struct efi efi_xen __initconst = {
>   ...
>         .memmap                   = NULL, /* Not used under Xen. */
>   ...
> 
> which was forgotten about, as .memmap now is an embedded struct:
> 
>         struct efi_memory_map memmap;
> 
> We can remove this initialization - it's an EFI core internal data structure plus 
> it's not used in the Xen driver anyway.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
> ---
>  drivers/xen/efi.c | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

Yep, looks good. Thanks Ingo!

Reviewed-by: Matt Fleming <matt@...eblueprint.co.uk>