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* [PATCH] tracing: Fix to use unused attribute
@ 2009-10-28  1:44 Li Zefan
  2009-10-29  7:57 ` Ingo Molnar
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Li Zefan @ 2009-10-28  1:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Ingo Molnar; +Cc: Steven Rostedt, Frederic Weisbecker, LKML

____ftrace_check_##name() is used for compile-time check
on F_printk() only, so it should be marked as __unused
instead of __used.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
---

I'm thinking about introducing __always_unused, comparing
to __maybe_unused.

---
 kernel/trace/trace_export.c |    5 +++--
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_export.c b/kernel/trace/trace_export.c
index 934d81f..85309fc 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_export.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_export.c
@@ -48,11 +48,12 @@
 struct ____ftrace_##name {					\
 	tstruct							\
 };								\
-static void __used ____ftrace_check_##name(void)		\
+static void __attribute__((unused))				\
+____ftrace_check_##name(void)					\
 {								\
 	struct ____ftrace_##name *__entry = NULL;		\
 								\
-	/* force cmpile-time check on F_printk() */		\
+	/* force compile-time check on F_printk() */		\
 	printk(print);						\
 }
 
-- 
1.6.3


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* Re: [PATCH] tracing: Fix to use unused attribute
  2009-10-28  1:44 [PATCH] tracing: Fix to use unused attribute Li Zefan
@ 2009-10-29  7:57 ` Ingo Molnar
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Ingo Molnar @ 2009-10-29  7:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Li Zefan, Linus Torvalds, Andrew Morton
  Cc: Steven Rostedt, Frederic Weisbecker, LKML


* Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> wrote:

> ____ftrace_check_##name() is used for compile-time check
> on F_printk() only, so it should be marked as __unused
> instead of __used.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
> ---
> 
> I'm thinking about introducing __always_unused, comparing
> to __maybe_unused.
> 
> ---
>  kernel/trace/trace_export.c |    5 +++--
>  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_export.c b/kernel/trace/trace_export.c
> index 934d81f..85309fc 100644
> --- a/kernel/trace/trace_export.c
> +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_export.c
> @@ -48,11 +48,12 @@
>  struct ____ftrace_##name {					\
>  	tstruct							\
>  };								\
> -static void __used ____ftrace_check_##name(void)		\
> +static void __attribute__((unused))				\
> +____ftrace_check_##name(void)					\
>  {								\
>  	struct ____ftrace_##name *__entry = NULL;		\
>  								\
> -	/* force cmpile-time check on F_printk() */		\
> +	/* force compile-time check on F_printk() */		\
>  	printk(print);						\
>  }

Hm, open-coding __attribute__()'s is not good.

These tags are somewhat of a mess:

 #if __GNUC_MINOR__ >= 3
 # define __used                 __attribute__((__used__))
 #else
 # define __used                 __attribute__((__unused__))
 #endif

I've Cc:-ed Linus and Andrew, to solicite feedback on __always_unused. I 
think we should add it.

	Ingo

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