Re: linux-next: build warning after merge of the origin tree

Suren Baghdasaryan
2022-01-17T01:27:47Z

On Sun, Jan 16, 2022 at 4:45 PM Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> After merging the origin tree, today's linux-next build (powerpc
> allnoconfig) produced this warning:
>
> kernel/sysctl.c:125:12: warning: 'one_thousand' defined but not used [-Wunused-variable]
> 125 | static int one_thousand = 1000;
> | ^~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> Introduced by commit
>
> 39c65a94cd96 ("mm/pagealloc: sysctl: change watermark_scale_factor max limit to 30%")
>
> It seems to only be used when CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS is set.
>
> I didn't see it in linux-next because there is a patch later in the
> akpm series (not yet in Linus' tree) that removes this variable.

Sorry, I saw the warning before when backporting this patch but I
didn't realize that the followup patches refactoring this code would
not be merged.
Posted a fix at:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220117012317.21168-1-surenb@google.com/
Thanks!

>
> --
> Cheers,
> Stephen Rothwell