Re: [PATCH] mm/huge_memory.c: Remove unused variable unmap_success

From: Yang Shi
Date: Tue May 18 2021 - 16:35:14 EST


On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 1:19 PM Yang Shi <shy828301@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 1:09 PM Souptick Joarder <jrdr.linux@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Kernel test robot throws below warning ->
> >
> > mm/huge_memory.c: In function 'unmap_page':
> > >> mm/huge_memory.c:2345:7: warning: variable 'unmap_success' set but not used [-Wunused-but-set-variable]
> > 2345 | bool unmap_success;
> > | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >
> > Remove the unused variable unmap_success.
> >
> > Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Souptick Joarder <jrdr.linux@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Thanks for catching this. Reviewed-by: Yang Shi <shy828301@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Just like https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/CAHbLzkonsd9f=48+cxKOJamNb9e8qpvWJCYDGFB_wNTdET2zmQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/T/#t,
> not sure why my compiler didn't catch such warning.

I just found out my build has "-Wno-unused-but-set-variable". This
explains why I didn't catch it.

> > ---
> > mm/huge_memory.c | 3 +--
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
> > index 52ca04b905cf..ff79a12993c9 100644
> > --- a/mm/huge_memory.c
> > +++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
> > @@ -2342,14 +2342,13 @@ static void unmap_page(struct page *page)
> > {
> > enum ttu_flags ttu_flags = TTU_IGNORE_MLOCK |
> > TTU_RMAP_LOCKED | TTU_SPLIT_HUGE_PMD;
> > - bool unmap_success;
> >
> > VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageHead(page), page);
> >
> > if (PageAnon(page))
> > ttu_flags |= TTU_SPLIT_FREEZE;
> >
> > - unmap_success = try_to_unmap(page, ttu_flags);
> > + try_to_unmap(page, ttu_flags);
> > }
> >
> > static void remap_page(struct page *page, unsigned int nr)
> > --
> > 2.25.1
> >
> >