Re: [tip: locking/core] locking/qspinlock: Fix 'wait_early' set but not used warning

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Mon Mar 11 2024 - 06:58:19 EST



* tip-bot2 for Waiman Long <tip-bot2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The following commit has been merged into the locking/core branch of tip:
>
> Commit-ID: ca4bc2e07b716509fd279d2b449bb42f4263a9c8
> Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/ca4bc2e07b716509fd279d2b449bb42f4263a9c8
> Author: Waiman Long <longman@xxxxxxxxxx>
> AuthorDate: Thu, 22 Feb 2024 10:05:37 -05:00
> Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> CommitterDate: Wed, 28 Feb 2024 13:08:37 +01:00
>
> locking/qspinlock: Fix 'wait_early' set but not used warning
>
> When CONFIG_LOCK_EVENT_COUNTS is off, the wait_early variable will be
> set but not used. This is expected. Recent compilers will not generate
> wait_early code in this case.
>
> Add the __maybe_unused attribute to wait_early for suppressing this
> W=1 warning.
>
> Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240222150540.79981-2-longman@xxxxxxxxxx
>
> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202312260422.f4pK3f9m-lkp@xxxxxxxxx/
> ---
> kernel/locking/qspinlock_paravirt.h | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/locking/qspinlock_paravirt.h b/kernel/locking/qspinlock_paravirt.h
> index 6a0184e..ae2b12f 100644
> --- a/kernel/locking/qspinlock_paravirt.h
> +++ b/kernel/locking/qspinlock_paravirt.h
> @@ -294,8 +294,8 @@ static void pv_wait_node(struct mcs_spinlock *node, struct mcs_spinlock *prev)
> {
> struct pv_node *pn = (struct pv_node *)node;
> struct pv_node *pp = (struct pv_node *)prev;
> + bool __maybe_unused wait_early;
> int loop;
> - bool wait_early;

On a second thought, shouldn't this be solved via lockevent_cond_inc()'s
!CONFIG_LOCK_EVENT_COUNTS stub explicitly marking the variable as used, via
!something like:

#define lockevent_cond_inc(ev, c) do { (void)(c); } while (0)

or so, instead of uglifying the usage site?

Thanks,

Ingo