Re: [PATCH] riscv: asm/gdb_xml.h: use __maybe_used to make W=1 warnings go away - Pierre-Louis Bossart

From: Pierre-Louis Bossart <pierre-louis.bossart@linux.intel.com>
To: Vincent Chen <vincent.chen@sifive.com>
Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>,
	kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>,
	tiwai@suse.de, open list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	broonie@kernel.org, Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>,
	Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>,
	"open list:RISC-V ARCHITECTURE" <linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] riscv: asm/gdb_xml.h: use __maybe_used to make W=1 warnings go away
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2020 09:20:52 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f148580a-f97d-3416-ca03-c3a425189568@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABvJ_xhm9a0nzBJ2YKvwm5vKZt3Xp0H9z6QakD0EYK7vRR-_AA@mail.gmail.com>

On 7/1/20 9:04 PM, Vincent Chen wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 2, 2020 at 2:48 AM Pierre-Louis Bossart
> <pierre-louis.bossart@linux.intel.com> wrote:
>>
>> 0day/kbuild reports warnings with the ASoC codecs compiled with W=1.
>>
>> In file included from arch/riscv/include/asm/kgdb.h:109,
>>                   from include/linux/kgdb.h:20,
>>                   from include/linux/fb.h:5,
>>                   from include/drm/drm_crtc.h:31,
>>                   from sound/soc/codecs/hdmi-codec.c:19:
>>
>> arch/riscv/include/asm/gdb_xml.h:23:19: warning:
>> 'riscv_gdb_stub_cpuxml' defined but not used [-Wunused-const-variable=]
>>     23 | static const char riscv_gdb_stub_cpuxml[2048] =
>>        |                   ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> arch/riscv/include/asm/gdb_xml.h:16:19: warning:
>> 'riscv_gdb_stub_target_desc' defined but not used [-Wunused-const-variable=]
>>     16 | static const char riscv_gdb_stub_target_desc[256] =
>>        |                   ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> arch/riscv/include/asm/gdb_xml.h:13:19: warning:
>> 'gdb_xfer_read_cpuxml' defined but not used [-Wunused-const-variable=]
>>     13 | static const char gdb_xfer_read_cpuxml[39] =
>>        |                   ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> arch/riscv/include/asm/gdb_xml.h:10:19: warning:
>> 'gdb_xfer_read_target' defined but not used [-Wunused-const-variable=]
>>     10 | static const char gdb_xfer_read_target[31] = "qXfer:features:read:target.xml:";
>>        |                   ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> arch/riscv/include/asm/gdb_xml.h:7:19: warning:
>> 'riscv_gdb_stub_feature' defined but not used [-Wunused-const-variable=]
>>      7 | static const char riscv_gdb_stub_feature[64] =
>>        |                   ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>
>> Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Pierre-Louis Bossart <pierre-louis.bossart@linux.intel.com>
>> ---
>>
>> I don't know if this is the right way of solving this issue but this
>> error is now consistently thrown in kbuild compile-test reports w/
>> W=1.
>>
> 
> Dear Pierre-Louis Bossart:
> Thanks for your modifications. I have fixed the warnings in my latest
> KGDB patchset and sent it out, but the merged KGDB patchset is not my
> latest version.
> I have sent a patch set to complement the missing ports, and I think
> these warnings would disappear after this patch has been accepted and
> merged.
> 
> Here is the patch to fix this warning:
> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-riscv/2020-June/000660.html

Thank you Vincent, let's drop my hacky patch then.

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