Re: [PATCH] arch/powerpc: Remove unnecessary endian conversion code in XICS

From: Gautam Menghani
Date: Fri Jun 30 2023 - 02:16:33 EST


On Fri, Jun 30, 2023 at 11:43:26AM +0530, Gautam Menghani wrote:
> Remove an unnecessary piece of code that does an endianness conversion but
> does not use the result. The following warning was reported by Clang's
> static analyzer:
>
> arch/powerpc/sysdev/xics/ics-opal.c:114:2: warning: Value stored to
> 'server' is never read [deadcode.DeadStores]
> server = be16_to_cpu(oserver);
>
> As the result of endianness conversion is never used, delete the line
> and fix the warning.
>
> Signed-off-by: Gautam Menghani <gautam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/powerpc/sysdev/xics/ics-opal.c | 1 -
> 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/sysdev/xics/ics-opal.c b/arch/powerpc/sysdev/xics/ics-opal.c
> index 6cfbb4fac7fb..5fe73dabab79 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/sysdev/xics/ics-opal.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/sysdev/xics/ics-opal.c
> @@ -111,7 +111,6 @@ static int ics_opal_set_affinity(struct irq_data *d,
> __func__, d->irq, hw_irq, rc);
> return -1;
> }
> - server = be16_to_cpu(oserver);
>
> wanted_server = xics_get_irq_server(d->irq, cpumask, 1);
> if (wanted_server < 0) {
> --
> 2.39.3
>

I resent this patch by mistake, please ignore this. Apologies for the
trouble.