Re: [PATCH] [8/23] KGDB: Remove set but unused newPC

From: Jason Wessel
Date: Fri Jul 30 2010 - 08:00:23 EST




On 06/10/2010 06:10 AM, Andi Kleen wrote:
> I'm not fully sure this is the correct fix, maybe this
> was a bug and newPC should really have a side effect.
> Jason?
>
>
Andi,

This looks fine to me. The newPC got there from the merge of the 32/64
kgdb specific implementation. Definitely don't need it anymore.

I'll queue it for 2.6.36.

Thanks,
Jason.

> Found by gcc 4.6's new warnings
>
> Cc: jason.wessel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> ---
> arch/x86/kernel/kgdb.c | 3 ---
> 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
>
> Index: linux-2.6.35-rc2-gcc/arch/x86/kernel/kgdb.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.35-rc2-gcc.orig/arch/x86/kernel/kgdb.c
> +++ linux-2.6.35-rc2-gcc/arch/x86/kernel/kgdb.c
> @@ -458,7 +458,6 @@ int kgdb_arch_handle_exception(int e_vec
> {
> unsigned long addr;
> char *ptr;
> - int newPC;
>
> switch (remcomInBuffer[0]) {
> case 'c':
> @@ -469,8 +468,6 @@ int kgdb_arch_handle_exception(int e_vec
> linux_regs->ip = addr;
> case 'D':
> case 'k':
> - newPC = linux_regs->ip;
> -
> /* clear the trace bit */
> linux_regs->flags &= ~X86_EFLAGS_TF;
> atomic_set(&kgdb_cpu_doing_single_step, -1);
>

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