On Fri 28-12-18 02:46:30, YueHaibing wrote:
> Fixes gcc '-Wunused-but-set-variable' warning when
> CONFIG_VMAP_STACK is not set:
Isn't this warning disabled? I can see the following
# These warnings generated too much noise in a regular build.
# Use make W=1 to enable them (see scripts/Makefile.extrawarn)
KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wno-unused-but-set-variable
in the main makefile. IMHO this warning doesn't really give us much.
>
> kernel/fork.c: In function 'dup_task_struct':
> kernel/fork.c:843:20: warning:
> variable 'stack_vm_area' set but not used [-Wunused-but-set-variable]
>
> Signed-off-by: YueHaibing <yuehaib...@huawei.com>
> ---
> kernel/fork.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
> index e2a5156..b38c392 100644
> --- a/kernel/fork.c
> +++ b/kernel/fork.c
> @@ -840,7 +840,7 @@ static struct task_struct *dup_task_struct(struct
> task_struct *orig, int node)
> {
> struct task_struct *tsk;
> unsigned long *stack;
> - struct vm_struct *stack_vm_area;
> + struct vm_struct *stack_vm_area __maybe_unused;
> int err;
>
> if (node == NUMA_NO_NODE)
>
>
>
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
