linux-kernel - [patch resend] compiler, clang: suppress warning for unused static inline functions

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Date:   Tue, 6 Jun 2017 13:36:24 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
cc:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@...omium.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Douglas Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>,
        Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>,
        Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: [patch resend] compiler, clang: suppress warning for unused static
 inline functions

GCC explicitly does not warn for unused static inline functions for
-Wunused-function.  The manual states:

	Warn whenever a static function is declared but not defined or
	a non-inline static function is unused.

Clang does warn for static inline functions that are unused.

It turns out that suppressing the warnings avoids potentially complex
#ifdef directives, which also reduces LOC.

Suppress the warning for clang.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
---
 This is a resend of my patch from http://marc.info/?t=149565969200006 
 that did not seem to end very productively, but I'm not in a position to
 insist.

 include/linux/compiler-clang.h | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/compiler-clang.h b/include/linux/compiler-clang.h
--- a/include/linux/compiler-clang.h
+++ b/include/linux/compiler-clang.h
@@ -15,3 +15,10 @@
  * with any version that can compile the kernel
  */
 #define __UNIQUE_ID(prefix) __PASTE(__PASTE(__UNIQUE_ID_, prefix), __COUNTER__)
+
+/*
+ * GCC does not warn about unused static inline functions for
+ * -Wunused-function.  This turns out to avoid the need for complex #ifdef
+ * directives.  Suppress the warning in clang as well.
+ */
+#define inline inline __attribute__((unused))