[pci:controller/xilinx-xdma] BUILD REGRESSION 8d786149d78c7784144c7179e25134b6530b714b

Nick Desaulniers ndesaulniers at google.com
Wed Nov 1 03:59:29 AEDT 2023


On Tue, Oct 31, 2023 at 7:56 AM Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas at kernel.org> wrote:
>
> [+cc powerpc, clang folks]
>
> On Sat, Oct 28, 2023 at 08:22:54PM +0800, kernel test robot wrote:
> > tree/branch: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pci/pci.git controller/xilinx-xdma
> > branch HEAD: 8d786149d78c7784144c7179e25134b6530b714b  PCI: xilinx-xdma: Add Xilinx XDMA Root Port driver
> >
> > Error/Warning ids grouped by kconfigs:
> >
> > clang_recent_errors
> > `-- powerpc-pmac32_defconfig
> >     |-- arch-powerpc-sysdev-grackle.c:error:unused-function-grackle_set_stg-Werror-Wunused-function
> >     |-- arch-powerpc-xmon-xmon.c:error:unused-function-get_output_lock-Werror-Wunused-function
> >     `-- arch-powerpc-xmon-xmon.c:error:unused-function-release_output_lock-Werror-Wunused-function
>
> This report is close to useless.  It doesn't show the complete error
> message, it doesn't show how to reproduce the issue, and the pci -next
> branch (including controller/xilinx-xdma) doesn't reference any of
> these functions:
>
>   $ git grep -E "grackle_set_stg|get_output_lock|release_output_lock" | cat
>   arch/powerpc/sysdev/grackle.c:static inline void grackle_set_stg(struct pci_controller* bp, int enable)
>   arch/powerpc/sysdev/grackle.c:        grackle_set_stg(hose, 1);
>   arch/powerpc/xmon/xmon.c:static void get_output_lock(void)
>   arch/powerpc/xmon/xmon.c:static void release_output_lock(void)
>   arch/powerpc/xmon/xmon.c:static inline void get_output_lock(void) {}
>   arch/powerpc/xmon/xmon.c:static inline void release_output_lock(void) {}
>   arch/powerpc/xmon/xmon.c:             get_output_lock();
>   arch/powerpc/xmon/xmon.c:             release_output_lock();
>   arch/powerpc/xmon/xmon.c:                     get_output_lock();
>   arch/powerpc/xmon/xmon.c:                     release_output_lock();
>   arch/powerpc/xmon/xmon.c:             get_output_lock();
>   arch/powerpc/xmon/xmon.c:             release_output_lock();
>   arch/powerpc/xmon/xmon.c:             get_output_lock();
>   arch/powerpc/xmon/xmon.c:             release_output_lock();
>
> That said, the unused functions do look legit:
>
> grackle_set_stg() is a static function and the only call is under
> "#if 0".

Time to remove it then? Or is it a bug that it's not called?
Otherwise the definition should be behind the same preprocessor guards
as the caller.  Same for the below.

>
> Same with get_output_lock() and release_output_lock(): they're static
> and always defined in xmon.c, but only called if either CONFIG_SMP or
> CONFIG_DEBUG_FS.
>
> But they're certainly not related to controller/xilinx-xdma, so I'm
> going to ignore them.
>
> Bjorn
>
> P.S. Nathan & Nick, I cc'd you because of this earlier report that
> also mentioned grackle_set_stg():
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/202308121120.u2d3YPVt-lkp@intel.com/



-- 
Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers


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