Re: [PATCH 4/4] tracing: avoid warnings from zero-arg tracepoints

Steven Rostedt
2009-04-17T15:53:18Z

On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:

> From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
>
> Tracepoints with no arguments can issue two warnings:
> "field" defined by not used
> "ret" is uninitialized in this function
>
> Mark field as being OK to leave unused, and initialize ret.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
> ---
> include/trace/ftrace.h | 4 ++--
> 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/trace/ftrace.h b/include/trace/ftrace.h
> index 60c5323..39a3351 100644
> --- a/include/trace/ftrace.h
> +++ b/include/trace/ftrace.h
> @@ -160,8 +160,8 @@ ftrace_raw_output_##call(struct trace_iterator *iter, int flags) \
> static int \
> ftrace_format_##call(struct trace_seq *s) \
> { \
> - struct ftrace_raw_##call field; \
> - int ret; \
> + struct ftrace_raw_##call field __attribute__((unused)); \
> + int ret = 0; \
> \
> tstruct; \
> \

Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

-- Steve