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Message-ID: <BD79186B4FD85F4B8E60E381CAEE190902089E63@mi8nycmail19.Mi8.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 20:34:34 -0500
From: "H Hartley Sweeten" <hartleys@...ionengravers.com>
To: "Li Zefan" <lizf@...fujitsu.com>
Cc: "Linux Kernel" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] prio_tree.c: quiet sparse noise
On Thursday, January 14, 2010 5:52 PM, Li Zefan wrote:
> H Hartley Sweeten wrote:
>> prio_tree.c: quiet sparse noise
>>
>> The function prio_tree_init is called during start_kernel. Since it
>> is an __init function it is not exposed as an exported symbol.
>> A sparse build produces the following warning because of this:
>>
>> warning: symbol 'prio_tree_init' was not declared. Should it be static?
>>
>> Quiet the warning by declaring the function as an extern before
>> it's definition.
>>
>
> Why don't you add a declaration of prio_tree_init() to prio_tree.h,
> and let kernel/main.c include it?
I don't think that's a good idea.
Since the function is __init it will be reaped by free_initmem in
init_post. If the function is exposed in the header someone might
try to call it after than happens. My guess is that's a bad thing...
Maybe a new <linux/init_funcs.h> could be created that has a big
fat warning about free_initmem? Then all the various init's could
be declared to remove all the sparse warnings. These are the main
ones I see in init/main.c but there are probably others:
extern void init_IRQ(void); <- arch specific
extern void fork_init(unsigned long); <- kernel/fork.c
extern void prio_tree_init(void); <- lib/prio_tree.c
extern void radix_tree_init(void); <- lib/radix-tree.c
extern void free_initmem(void); <- arch specific
extern void time_init(void); <- arch specific
extern void softirq_init(void); <- kernel/softirq.c
Regards,
Hartley
>> Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@...ionengravers.com>
>>
>> ---
>>
>> diff --git a/lib/prio_tree.c b/lib/prio_tree.c
>> index ccfd850..a677200 100644
>> --- a/lib/prio_tree.c
>> +++ b/lib/prio_tree.c
>> @@ -68,6 +68,9 @@ static void get_index(const struct prio_tree_root *root,
>>
>> static unsigned long index_bits_to_maxindex[BITS_PER_LONG];
>>
>> +/* Keep sparse happy since this is not an EXPORT_SYMBOL */
>> +extern void prio_tree_init(void);
>> +
>> void __init prio_tree_init(void)
>> {
>> unsigned int i;
>> --
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