linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] lockdep: fix warning: print_lock

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Message-ID: <20190618160014.GP26519@linux.ibm.com>
Date:   Tue, 18 Jun 2019 09:00:14 -0700
From:   "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.ibm.com>
To:     john.hubbard@...il.com
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>,
        Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] lockdep: fix warning: print_lock_trace defined but
 not used

On Sun, Jun 09, 2019 at 05:09:33PM -0700, john.hubbard@...il.com wrote:
> From: John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>
> 
> Commit 0d2cc3b34532 ("locking/lockdep: Move valid_state() inside
> CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS && CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING") moved the only usage of
> print_lock_trace() that was originally outside of the CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING
> case. It moved that usage into a different case: CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING &&
> CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS. That leaves things not symmetrical, and as a result,
> the following warning fires on my build, when I have
> 
> !CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS && !CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING
> 
> set:
> 
> kernel/locking/lockdep.c:2821:13: warning: ‘print_lock_trace’ defined
>     but not used [-Wunused-function]
> 
> Fix this by annotating print_lock_trace() with "__maybe_unused".
> Thanks to Paul E. McKenney for suggesting this less intrusive fix,
> as compared to adding more ifdef noise.
> 
> Fixes: 0d2cc3b34532 ("locking/lockdep: Move valid_state() inside CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS && CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING")
> 
> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
> Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>

Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.ibm.com>

> ---
>  kernel/locking/lockdep.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/locking/lockdep.c b/kernel/locking/lockdep.c
> index c47788fa85f9..2726dafdb29b 100644
> --- a/kernel/locking/lockdep.c
> +++ b/kernel/locking/lockdep.c
> @@ -2818,7 +2818,8 @@ static inline int validate_chain(struct task_struct *curr,
>  	return 1;
>  }
> 
> -static void print_lock_trace(struct lock_trace *trace, unsigned int spaces)
> +static void __maybe_unused print_lock_trace(struct lock_trace *trace,
> +					    unsigned int spaces)
>  {
>  }
>  #endif
> -- 
> 2.21.0
>