Re: [PATCH net-next] net: core: Quiet W=1 warnings for unused vars and static functions

From: Cong Wang
Date: Mon Oct 06 2014 - 18:12:41 EST


On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 2:51 PM, Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> John, can you please verify that these gen_stats accesses
> are unnecessary? I believe the compiler can elide them in
> any case, but I'm not sure what you intended here.
>
> net/core/dev.c | 4 ++--
> net/core/gen_stats.c | 4 ----
> net/core/rtnetlink.c | 3 +--
> 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

You need to split this patch.


> diff --git a/net/core/gen_stats.c b/net/core/gen_stats.c
> index 14681b9..01be9cf 100644
> --- a/net/core/gen_stats.c
> +++ b/net/core/gen_stats.c
> @@ -106,13 +106,9 @@ __gnet_stats_copy_basic_cpu(struct gnet_stats_basic_packed *bstats,
> for_each_possible_cpu(i) {
> struct gnet_stats_basic_cpu *bcpu = per_cpu_ptr(cpu, i);
> unsigned int start;
> - __u64 bytes;
> - __u32 packets;
>
> do {
> start = u64_stats_fetch_begin_irq(&bcpu->syncp);
> - bytes = bcpu->bstats.bytes;
> - packets = bcpu->bstats.packets;
> } while (u64_stats_fetch_retry_irq(&bcpu->syncp, start));


Looks like we really need them:

diff --git a/net/core/gen_stats.c b/net/core/gen_stats.c
index 14681b9..7948ecf 100644
--- a/net/core/gen_stats.c
+++ b/net/core/gen_stats.c
@@ -115,8 +115,8 @@ __gnet_stats_copy_basic_cpu(struct
gnet_stats_basic_packed *bstats,
packets = bcpu->bstats.packets;
} while (u64_stats_fetch_retry_irq(&bcpu->syncp, start));

- bstats->bytes += bcpu->bstats.bytes;
- bstats->packets += bcpu->bstats.packets;
+ bstats->bytes += bytes;
+ bstats->packets += packets;
}
}
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