From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2017 18:30:26 -0700 From: Stephen Boyd To: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" Cc: Michael Turquette , linux-clk@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] clk: moxart: remove unnecessary statics Message-ID: <20170718013026.GR22780@codeaurora.org> References: <20170704223650.GA22546@embeddedgus> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <20170704223650.GA22546@embeddedgus> List-ID: On 07/04, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote: > Remove unnecessary static on local variable _base_ in both functions > moxart_of_pll_clk_init() and moxart_of_apb_clk_init(). Such variables > are initialized before being used, on every execution path throughout > the mentioned functions. The statics have no benefit and, removing > them reduce the code size. > > This issue was detected using Coccinelle and the following semantic patch: > > @bad exists@ > position p; > identifier x; > type T; > @@ > > static T x@p; > ... > x = <+...x...+> > > @@ > identifier x; > expression e; > type T; > position p != bad.p; > @@ > > -static > T x@p; > ... when != x > when strict > ?x = e; > > In the following log you can see the difference in the code size. Also, > notice that the bss segment is reduced down to zero. This log is the > output of the size command, before and after the code change: > > before: > text data bss dec hex filename > 1724 384 128 2236 8bc drivers/clk/clk-moxart.o > > after: > text data bss dec hex filename > 1697 240 0 1937 791 drivers/clk/clk-moxart.o > > Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva > --- Applied to clk-next -- Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of Code Aurora Forum, a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project