Re: [PATCH] dynamic_debug: Remove unnecessary __used

[Jason Baron]

On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 12:07:03PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> The __used attribute prevents gcc from eliminating
> unnecessary, otherwise optimized away, metadata for
> debugging logging messages.
> 
> Remove the __used attribute.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  include/linux/dynamic_debug.h | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/dynamic_debug.h b/include/linux/dynamic_debug.h
> index c18257b..6dd4787 100644
> --- a/include/linux/dynamic_debug.h
> +++ b/include/linux/dynamic_debug.h
> @@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ int __dynamic_netdev_dbg(struct _ddebug *descriptor,
>  			 const char *fmt, ...);
>  
>  #define DEFINE_DYNAMIC_DEBUG_METADATA(name, fmt)		\
> -	static struct _ddebug __used __aligned(8)		\
> +	static struct _ddebug  __aligned(8)			\
>  	__attribute__((section("__verbose"))) name = {		\
>  		.modname = KBUILD_MODNAME,			\
>  		.function = __func__,				\
> 
> 

Greg, Pls pull this.

Acked-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@xxxxxxxxxx>
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