netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v3 2/2] netcons: Add udp send fail statistics to netconsole

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Message-ID: <CAO6EAnVgob_8HZFjH8=JA=jhZBxQtEsqQE0d4+PHLU2vKvpz_Q@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2024 14:05:40 -0400
From: Maksym Kutsevol <max@...sevol.com>
To: Breno Leitao <leitao@...ian.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, 
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, 
	Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@....com>, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, 
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3 2/2] netcons: Add udp send fail statistics to netconsole

On Thu, Sep 12, 2024 at 1:58 PM Maksym Kutsevol <max@...sevol.com> wrote:
>
> Hey Breno,
> Thanks for looking into this.
>
> On Thu, Sep 12, 2024 at 1:49 PM Breno Leitao <leitao@...ian.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hello Maksym,
> >
> > Thanks for the patch, it is looking good. A few nits:
> >
> > On Thu, Sep 12, 2024 at 10:28:52AM -0700, Maksym Kutsevol wrote:
> > > +/**
> > > + * netpoll_send_udp_count_errs - Wrapper for netpoll_send_udp that counts errors
> > > + * @nt: target to send message to
> > > + * @msg: message to send
> > > + * @len: length of message
> > > + *
> > > + * Calls netpoll_send_udp and classifies the return value. If an error
> > > + * occurred it increments statistics in nt->stats accordingly.
> > > + * Only calls netpoll_send_udp if CONFIG_NETCONSOLE_DYNAMIC is disabled.
> > > + */
> > > +static void netpoll_send_udp_count_errs(struct netconsole_target *nt, const char *msg, int len)
> > > +{
> > > +     int result = netpoll_send_udp(&nt->np, msg, len);
> >
> > Would you get a "variable defined but not used" type of eror if
> > CONFIG_NETCONSOLE_DYNAMIC is disabled?
> >
> Most probably yes, I'll check. If so, I'll add __maybe_unused in the
> next iteration.

No, there's no warning. As it's used and then optimized out by the compiler.