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Message-ID: <20090416011102.GA3419@helight>
Date:	Thu, 16 Apr 2009 09:11:02 +0800
From:	Zhenwen Xu <helight.xu@...il.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	sean.hefty@...el.com, hal.rosenstock@...il.com,
	general@...ts.openfabrics.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix a warning on
	drivers/infiniband/hw/nes/nes_cm.c:862:

On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 02:32:28PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Apr 2009 20:23:17 +0800
> Zhenwen Xu <helight.xu@...il.com> wrote:
> 
> > Fix this warning:
> > drivers/infiniband/hw/nes/nes_cm.c:862: warning: unused variable ___tmp_addr___
> > 
> > the 'tmp_addr' is defined for debug, so it should be defined in
> > CONFIG_INFINIBAND_NES_DEBUG
> > 
> > 
> > >From 5f67884bcda5450807dcd080378d829628e4db1c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: Zhenwen Xu <Helight.Xu@...il.com>
> > Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 20:12:18 +0800
> > Subject: [PATCH] fix a warning on drivers/infiniband/hw/nes/nes_cm.c:862:
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Zhenwen Xu <helight.xu@...il.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/infiniband/hw/nes/nes_cm.c |    3 ++-
> >  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/nes/nes_cm.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/nes/nes_cm.c
> > index dbd9a75..1bad93b 100644
> > --- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/nes/nes_cm.c
> > +++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/nes/nes_cm.c
> > @@ -854,8 +854,9 @@ static struct nes_cm_listener *find_listener(struct nes_cm_core *cm_core,
> >  {
> >  	unsigned long flags;
> >  	struct nes_cm_listener *listen_node;
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_INFINIBAND_NES_DEBUG
> >  	__be32 tmp_addr = cpu_to_be32(dst_addr);
> > -
> > +#endif
> >  	/* walk list and find cm_node associated with this session ID */
> >  	spin_lock_irqsave(&cm_core->listen_list_lock, flags);
> >  	list_for_each_entry(listen_node, &cm_core->listen_list.list, list) {
> 
> eek, an ugly ifdef.  And we can't just remove tmp_addr because
> printk(%p) wants to be passed an address rather than a value.
> 
> It'd be nice if we had a handy macro to squish the warning, like
> uninitialized_var.
> 
> As it happens, uninitialized_var() _does_ suppress the unused-var warning:
> 
> --- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/nes/nes_cm.c~drivers-infiniband-hw-nes-nes_cmc-fix-unused-var-warning-cleanup
> +++ a/drivers/infiniband/hw/nes/nes_cm.c
> @@ -854,9 +854,8 @@ static struct nes_cm_listener *find_list
>  {
>  	unsigned long flags;
>  	struct nes_cm_listener *listen_node;
> -#ifdef CONFIG_INFINIBAND_NES_DEBUG
> -	__be32 tmp_addr = cpu_to_be32(dst_addr);
> -#endif
> +	__be32 uninitialized_var(tmp_addr) = cpu_to_be32(dst_addr);
> +
>  	/* walk list and find cm_node associated with this session ID */
>  	spin_lock_irqsave(&cm_core->listen_list_lock, flags);
>  	list_for_each_entry(listen_node, &cm_core->listen_list.list, list) {
> 
> 
> but that seems a bit abusive ;)
Thanks! I got.

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