linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm/percpu: mark pcpu_chunk_type() as __maybe

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Message-ID: <ec030764-e2e9-726b-8d7d-13c929eddc51@huawei.com>
Date:   Tue, 14 Jul 2020 21:33:29 +0800
From:   Bixuan Cui <cuibixuan@...wei.com>
To:     Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
CC:     <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>,
        <john.wanghui@...wei.com>, Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/percpu: mark pcpu_chunk_type() as __maybe_unused



On 2020/7/14 20:53, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi Bixuan,
> 
> On Tue, 14 Jul 2020 13:41:01 +0000 Bixuan Cui <cuibixuan@...wei.com> wrote:
>> Gcc report the following warning without CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM:
>>
>> mm/percpu-internal.h:145:29: warning: ‘pcpu_chunk_type’ defined
>> but not used [-Wunused-function]
>>  static enum pcpu_chunk_type pcpu_chunk_type(struct pcpu_chunk *chunk)
>>                              ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>
>> Mark pcpu_chunk_type() as __maybe_unused to make it clear.
> Given that it is in a header file, it should probably just be "static
> inline" (which will also suppress the warning).  As should
> pcpu_is_memcg_chunk() and pcpu_chunk_list().  Also, without them being
> inline, there will be a new copy for each file that
> mm/percpu-internal.h is included in.
> 
> And that should be considered a fix for "mm: memcg/percpu: account
> percpu memory to memory cgroups".
Thinks，i will fix it.