linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] asm-generic: percpu: avoid Wshadow warning

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Date:   Mon, 26 Oct 2020 22:03:12 +0100
From:   Luc Van Oostenryck <luc.vanoostenryck@...il.com>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...nel.org>
Cc:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Dennis Zhou <dennis@...nel.org>,
        Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] asm-generic: percpu: avoid Wshadow warning

On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 04:53:48PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
> 
> Nesting macros that use the same local variable names causes
> warnings when building with "make W=2":
> 
> include/asm-generic/percpu.h:117:14: warning: declaration of '__ret' shadows a previous local [-Wshadow]
> include/asm-generic/percpu.h:126:14: warning: declaration of '__ret' shadows a previous local [-Wshadow]
> 
> These are fairly harmless, but since the warning comes from
> a global header, the warning happens every time the headers
> are included, which is fairly annoying.
> 
> Rename the variables to avoid shadowing and shut up the warning.

Looks good to me. Fell free to add my:

Reviewed-by: Luc Van Oostenryck <luc.vanoostenryck@...il.com>