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Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Mark variable `cpumsr` as unused
To:     Mathieu Malaterre <malat@debian.org>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
        Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
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From:   Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
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Date:   Thu, 8 Nov 2018 06:09:35 +0000
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On 11/07/2018 08:26 PM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> Add gcc attribute unused for `cpumsr` variable.
> 
> Fix warnings treated as errors with W=1:
> 
>    arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c:231:16: error: variable ‘cpumsr’ set but not used [-Werror=unused-but-set-variable]
>    arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c:296:16: error: variable ‘cpumsr’ set but not used [-Werror=unused-but-set-variable]
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mathieu Malaterre <malat@debian.org>

I don't think this is the good way to fix that. This problem was 
introduced by commit 5c784c8414fb ("powerpc/tm: Remove 
msr_tm_active()"). That commit should be reverted and fixed.

That commit should have removed the macro and kept the inline function.

Christophe

> ---
>   arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c | 4 ++--
>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
> index 96f34730010f..b9f1a2408738 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
> @@ -228,7 +228,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(flush_fp_to_thread);
>   
>   void enable_kernel_fp(void)
>   {
> -	unsigned long cpumsr;
> +	unsigned long cpumsr __maybe_unused;
>   
>   	WARN_ON(preemptible());
>   
> @@ -293,7 +293,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(giveup_altivec);
>   
>   void enable_kernel_altivec(void)
>   {
> -	unsigned long cpumsr;
> +	unsigned long cpumsr __maybe_unused;
>   
>   	WARN_ON(preemptible());
>   
>