[PATCH 2/2] powerpc: make 'boot_text_mapped' static
Christophe Leroy
christophe.leroy at csgroup.eu
Thu Apr 8 15:04:35 AEST 2021
Le 08/04/2021 à 03:18, Yu Kuai a écrit :
> The sparse tool complains as follow:
>
> arch/powerpc/kernel/btext.c:48:5: warning:
> symbol 'boot_text_mapped' was not declared. Should it be static?
>
> This symbol is not used outside of btext.c, so this commit make
> it static.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yu Kuai <yukuai3 at huawei.com>
> ---
> arch/powerpc/kernel/btext.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/btext.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/btext.c
> index 359d0f4ca532..8df9230be6fa 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/btext.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/btext.c
> @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ unsigned long disp_BAT[2] __initdata = {0, 0};
>
> static unsigned char vga_font[cmapsz];
>
> -int boot_text_mapped __force_data = 0;
> +static int boot_text_mapped __force_data;
Are you sure the initialisation to 0 can be removed ? Usually initialisation to 0 is not needed
because not initialised variables go in the BSS section which is zeroed at startup. But here the
variable is flagged with __force_data so it is not going in the BSS section.
>
> extern void rmci_on(void);
> extern void rmci_off(void);
>
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