Re: 2e685cad5790 build warning

Re: 2e685cad5790 build warning

[Johannes Weiner]

[ botched linux-kernel address in the first try ]

On Wed, Dec 04, 2013 at 05:29:43PM -0500, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> Hi Eric,
> 
> commit 2e685cad57906e19add7189b5ff49dfb6aaa21d3
> Author: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
> Date:   Sat Oct 19 16:26:19 2013 -0700
> 
>     tcp_memcontrol: Kill struct tcp_memcontrol
>     
>     Replace the pointers in struct cg_proto with actual data fields and kill
>     struct tcp_memcontrol as it is not fully redundant.
>     
>     This removes a confusing, unnecessary layer of abstraction.
>     
>     Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
>     Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
> 
> triggers a build warning because it removed the only reference to a
> function but not the function itself:
> 
> linux/net/ipv4/tcp_memcontrol.c:9:13: warning: ‘memcg_tcp_enter_memory_pressure’ defined but not used [-Wunused-function]
>  static void memcg_tcp_enter_memory_pressure(struct sock *sk)
> 
> I can not see from the changelog why this function is no longer used,
> or who is supposed to now set cg_proto->memory_pressure which you
> still initialize etc.  Either way, the current state does not seem to
> make much sense.  The author would be the best person to double check
> such changes, but he wasn't copied on your patch, so I copied him now.
> 
> Apologies if this has been brought up before, I could not find any
> reference on LKML of either this patch or a report of this warning.
> 
> Thanks!