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From: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
To: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Cc: kexec@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	llvm@lists.linux.dev, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>,
	Nick Desaulniers <nick.desaulniers+lkml@gmail.com>,
	Bill Wendling <morbo@google.com>,
	Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] kexec: Remove unused code in kimage_load_cma_segment()
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2025 15:24:40 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <aMlXCODJ4SqS_Bci@smile.fi.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250915221436.GA925462@ax162>

On Mon, Sep 15, 2025 at 03:14:36PM -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> Hi Andy,
> 
> On Mon, Sep 15, 2025 at 05:55:43PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > clang is not happy about set but unused variable:
> > 
> > kernel/kexec_core.c:745:16: error: variable 'maddr' set but not used [-Werror,-Wunused-but-set-variable]
> >   745 |         unsigned long maddr;
> >       |                       ^
> > 1 error generated.
> > 
> > Fix the compilation breakage (`make W=1` build) by removing unused variable.
> > 
> > Fixes: 07d24902977e ("kexec: enable CMA based contiguous allocation")
> 
> I don't think this fixes tag is right. maddr definitely looks used in
> that diff. I think it is a follow up simplification that introduces
> this.
> 
> Fixes: f4fecb50d6e1 ("kexec_core: remove superfluous page offset handling in segment loading")

Oh, you are right!

> Otherwise, this patch looks correct to me and GCC 16 will warn on this
> as well.
> 
>   kernel/kexec_core.c: In function 'kimage_load_cma_segment':
>   kernel/kexec_core.c:745:23: error: variable 'maddr' set but not used [-Werror=unused-but-set-variable=]
>     745 |         unsigned long maddr;
>         |                       ^~~~~

I'll add this as well to the commit message (in shorter form).

> Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>

Thank you! I'm going to send a v2 soon.

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko



      reply	other threads:[~2025-09-16 12:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-09-15 15:55 [PATCH v1 1/1] kexec: Remove unused code in kimage_load_cma_segment() Andy Shevchenko
2025-09-15 22:14 ` Nathan Chancellor
2025-09-16 12:24   ` Andy Shevchenko [this message]

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