linux-kernel - [PATCH tip/core/rcu 10/27] rcu: Remove unused local variable "cpu"

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Date:   Mon, 25 Jun 2018 17:34:56 -0700
From:   "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     mingo@...nel.org, jiangshanlai@...il.com, dipankar@...ibm.com,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com,
        josh@...htriplett.org, tglx@...utronix.de, peterz@...radead.org,
        rostedt@...dmis.org, dhowells@...hat.com, edumazet@...gle.com,
        fweisbec@...il.com, oleg@...hat.com, joel@...lfernandes.org,
        "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 10/27] rcu: Remove unused local variable "cpu"

One danger of using __maybe_unused is that the compiler doesn't yell
at you when you remove the last reference, witness rcu_bind_gp_kthread()
and its local variable "cpu".  This commit removes this local variable.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h | 2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h b/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h
index 75a91d58b8f7..2cc9bf0d363a 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h
+++ b/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h
@@ -2670,8 +2670,6 @@ static bool rcu_nohz_full_cpu(struct rcu_state *rsp)
  */
 static void rcu_bind_gp_kthread(void)
 {
-	int __maybe_unused cpu;
-
 	if (!tick_nohz_full_enabled())
 		return;
 	housekeeping_affine(current, HK_FLAG_RCU);
-- 
2.17.1