Re: [PATCH 25/46] kernel: Add prototype declaration to header file include/linux/ftrace.h

[josh@joshtriplett.org]

On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 02:37:53PM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Feb 2014 17:32:47 +0530
> Rashika Kheria <rashika.kheria@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Add prototype declaration of function to header file
> > include/linux/ftrace.h because it is used by more than one file.
> > 
> > This eliminates the following warning in kernel/trace/ftrace.c:
> > kernel/trace/ftrace.c:4914:5: warning: no previous prototype for ‘ftrace_graph_entry_stub’ [-Wmissing-prototypes]
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Rashika Kheria <rashika.kheria@gmail.com>
> > Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
> > ---
> >  include/linux/ftrace.h |    2 ++
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/include/linux/ftrace.h b/include/linux/ftrace.h
> > index 68ea184..da1c31f 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/ftrace.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/ftrace.h
> > @@ -672,6 +672,8 @@ struct ftrace_graph_ret {
> >  typedef void (*trace_func_graph_ret_t)(struct ftrace_graph_ret *); /* return */
> >  typedef int (*trace_func_graph_ent_t)(struct ftrace_graph_ent *); /* entry */
> >  
> > +int ftrace_graph_entry_stub(struct ftrace_graph_ent *trace);
> 
> This doesn't need to be in a header file as it is only called by
> assmebly. But I have no problems with it being in one, but it should
> have a comment stating this:
> 
> /* This is only called by assembly code, declared here for consistency */

That seems quite reasonable, yeah.

- Josh Triplett