Re: [PATCH 5/7] genirq/affinity: move group_cpus_evenly() into lib/

[Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>]

Hello,

On Sun, Aug 15, 2021 at 01:01:07AM +0800, kernel test robot wrote:
> Hi Ming,
> 
> Thank you for the patch! Perhaps something to improve:
> 
> [auto build test WARNING on tip/irq/core]
> [also build test WARNING on next-20210813]
> [cannot apply to block/for-next linux/master linus/master v5.14-rc5]
> [If your patch is applied to the wrong git tree, kindly drop us a note.
> And when submitting patch, we suggest to use '--base' as documented in
> https://git-scm.com/docs/git-format-patch]
> 
> url:    https://github.com/0day-ci/linux/commits/Ming-Lei/genirq-affinity-abstract-new-API-from-managed-irq-affinity-spread/20210814-203741
> base:   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git 04c2721d3530f0723b4c922a8fa9f26b202a20de
> config: hexagon-randconfig-r041-20210814 (attached as .config)
> compiler: clang version 12.0.0
> reproduce (this is a W=1 build):
>         wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/intel/lkp-tests/master/sbin/make.cross -O ~/bin/make.cross
>         chmod +x ~/bin/make.cross
>         # https://github.com/0day-ci/linux/commit/759f72186bfdd5c3ba8b53ac0749cf7ba930012c
>         git remote add linux-review https://github.com/0day-ci/linux
>         git fetch --no-tags linux-review Ming-Lei/genirq-affinity-abstract-new-API-from-managed-irq-affinity-spread/20210814-203741
>         git checkout 759f72186bfdd5c3ba8b53ac0749cf7ba930012c
>         # save the attached .config to linux build tree
>         COMPILER_INSTALL_PATH=$HOME/0day COMPILER=clang make.cross ARCH=hexagon 
> 
> If you fix the issue, kindly add following tag as appropriate
> Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
> 
> All warnings (new ones prefixed by >>):
> 
> >> lib/group_cpus.c:344:17: warning: no previous prototype for function 'group_cpus_evenly' [-Wmissing-prototypes]
>    struct cpumask *group_cpus_evenly(unsigned int numgrps)
>                    ^
>    lib/group_cpus.c:344:1: note: declare 'static' if the function is not intended to be used outside of this translation unit
>    struct cpumask *group_cpus_evenly(unsigned int numgrps)
>    ^
>    static 
>    1 warning generated.
> 
> 
> vim +/group_cpus_evenly +344 lib/group_cpus.c
> 
>    328	
>    329	/**
>    330	 * group_cpus_evenly - Group all CPUs evenly per NUMA/CPU locality
>    331	 * @numgrps: number of groups
>    332	 *
>    333	 * Return: cpumask array if successful, NULL otherwise. And each element
>    334	 * includes CPUs assigned to this group
>    335	 *
>    336	 * Try to put close CPUs from viewpoint of CPU and NUMA locality into
>    337	 * same group, and run two-stage grouping:
>    338	 *	1) allocate present CPUs on these groups evenly first
>    339	 *	2) allocate other possible CPUs on these groups evenly
>    340	 *
>    341	 * We guarantee in the resulted grouping that all CPUs are covered, and
>    342	 * no same CPU is assigned to different groups
>    343	 */
>  > 344	struct cpumask *group_cpus_evenly(unsigned int numgrps)

But the above symbol is exported via EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(), in current
kernel tree, we usually keep such exported symbol as global, or is there
some change in kernel coding style recently?



Thanks,
Ming