linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -next] userfaultfd: remove set but not used variable 'h'

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Date:   Wed, 9 Oct 2019 19:25:18 -0700
From:   Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@...cle.com>
To:     Wei Yang <richardw.yang@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     YueHaibing <yuehaibing@...wei.com>,
        Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
        "Joel Fernandes (Google)" <joel@...lfernandes.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
        Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -next] userfaultfd: remove set but not used variable 'h'

On 10/9/19 6:23 PM, Wei Yang wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 09, 2019 at 05:45:57PM -0700, Mike Kravetz wrote:
>> On 10/9/19 5:27 AM, YueHaibing wrote:
>>> Fixes gcc '-Wunused-but-set-variable' warning:
>>>
>>> mm/userfaultfd.c: In function '__mcopy_atomic_hugetlb':
>>> mm/userfaultfd.c:217:17: warning:
>>>  variable 'h' set but not used [-Wunused-but-set-variable]
>>>
>>> It is not used since commit 78911d0e18ac ("userfaultfd: use vma_pagesize
>>> for all huge page size calculation")
>>>
>>
>> Thanks!  That should have been removed with the recent cleanups.
>>
>>> Signed-off-by: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@...wei.com>
>>
>> Reviewed-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@...cle.com>
> 
> If I am correct, this is removed in a recent patch.

I'm having a hard time figuring out what is actually in the latest mmotm
tree.  Andrew added a build fixup patch ab169389eb5 in linux-next which
adds the reference to h.  Is there a patch after that to remove the reference?

-- 
Mike Kravetz