From: christoffer.dall@linaro.org (Christoffer Dall)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] ARM: KVM: fix warning in mmu.c
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2014 19:51:07 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140207035107.GM9157@cbox> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1391630305-8056-1-git-send-email-marc.zyngier@arm.com>
On Wed, Feb 05, 2014 at 07:58:25PM +0000, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> Compiling with THP enabled leads to the following warning:
>
> arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c: In function ?unmap_range?:
> arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c:177:39: warning: ?pte? may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
> if (kvm_pmd_huge(*pmd) || page_empty(pte)) {
> ^
> Code inspection reveals that these two cases are mutually exclusive,
> so GCC is a bit overzealous here. But silence it anyway by setting
> pte to NULL if kvm_pmd_huge(*pmd) is true.
>
> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
> ---
> arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c | 4 +++-
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c
> index ea21b6a..3020221 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c
> @@ -169,12 +169,14 @@ static void unmap_range(struct kvm *kvm, pgd_t *pgdp,
> pte = pte_offset_kernel(pmd, addr);
> clear_pte_entry(kvm, pte, addr);
> next = addr + PAGE_SIZE;
> + } else {
> + pte = NULL;
> }
If it's just for the compiler, how about just setting pte = NULL when
pte is declared in the top of the function as to not interrupt the flow?
-Christoffer
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2014-02-05 19:58 [PATCH] ARM: KVM: fix warning in mmu.c Marc Zyngier
2014-02-07 3:51 ` Christoffer Dall [this message]
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