linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH v2] sched: Fix compiler warnings

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Date:	Wed, 25 Jun 2014 15:40:28 +0000
From:	David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
To:	'Guenter Roeck' <linux@...ck-us.net>,
	Uwe Kleine-König 
	<u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
CC:	Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@....com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	"Vincent Guittot" <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>,
	"linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org" <linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH v2] sched: Fix compiler warnings

From: Guenter Roeck
> On 06/25/2014 07:49 AM, Uwe Kleine-Knig wrote:
> > Hello Guenter,
> >
> > On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 07:27:47AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> >>> Maybe the author's intention was:
> >>>
> >>> 	static inline int cpu_corepower_flags(void) __attribute__((const));
> >>>
> >>> ?
> >>> This specifies that the function has no side effects and the return value
> >>> only depends on the (here non-existing) function arguments.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Possibly, but either I am missing something or this doesn't compile.
> > You need to do a separate declaration:
> >
> > 	static inline int cpu_corepower_flags(void) __attribute__((const));
> > 	static inline int cpu_corepower_flags(void)
> > 	{
> > 		...
> 
> Actually turns out one can use __attribute_const__, and it is
> 
> 	static inline int __attribute_const__ cpu_corepower_flags(void)
> 
> which turns out to be widely used.
> 
> I'll change that and resubmit after testing.

You don't need to tell the compiler that for an inline function.

	David