[U-Boot] [PATCH 1/4] microblaze: Fix compilation warning in ext2_find_next_zero_bit

Marek Vasut marex at denx.de
Thu Nov 8 02:30:52 CET 2012


Dear Michal Simek,

> On 10/05/2012 06:48 PM, Marek Vasut wrote:
> > Dear Michal Simek,
> > 
> >> ext2_find_next_zero_bit must be also static if __swab32 is also static.
> >> 
> >> Warning:
> >> include/asm/bitops.h:369:22: warning: '__fswab32' is static but
> >> used in inline function 'ext2_find_next_zero_bit'
> >> which is not static [enabled by default]
> >> 
> >> Signed-off-by: Michal Simek <monstr at monstr.eu>
> >> ---
> >> 
> >>   arch/microblaze/include/asm/bitops.h |    3 ++-
> >>   1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> >> 
> >> diff --git a/arch/microblaze/include/asm/bitops.h
> >> b/arch/microblaze/include/asm/bitops.h index e8c835f..eafa2b5 100644
> >> --- a/arch/microblaze/include/asm/bitops.h
> >> +++ b/arch/microblaze/include/asm/bitops.h
> >> @@ -319,7 +319,8 @@ extern __inline__ int ext2_test_bit(int nr, const
> >> volatile void * addr) #define ext2_find_first_zero_bit(addr, size) \
> >> 
> >>   	ext2_find_next_zero_bit((addr), (size), 0)
> >> 
> >> -extern __inline__ unsigned long ext2_find_next_zero_bit(void *addr,
> >> unsigned long size, unsigned long offset) +static inline unsigned long
> >> ext2_find_next_zero_bit(void *addr,
> >> +				unsigned long size, unsigned long offset)
> >> 
> >>   {
> >>   
> >>   	unsigned long *p = ((unsigned long *) addr) + (offset >> 5);
> >>   	unsigned long result = offset & ~31UL;
> > 
> > I'd rather see it done the other way -- drop the inline and let compiler
> > decide. What are the size penalties ?
> 
> With inline
>     text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
>   361914	  14698	 232344	 608956	  94abc	./u-boot
> 
> without inline
>     text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
>   361922	  14698	 232368	 608988	  94adc	./u-boot
> 
> But the problem is that I can see a lot of warnings that this function is
> unused. u-boot/include/asm/bitops.h:322:22: warning:
> 'ext2_find_next_zero_bit' defined but not used [-Wunused-function]
> 
> FYI: I have just grepped source tree and I see that the same solution is
> used by blackfin/mips and powerpc.
> 
> $ grep -rn "ext2_find_next_zero_bit" arch/ | grep static
> arch/microblaze/include/asm/bitops.h:322:static inline unsigned long
> ext2_find_next_zero_bit(void *addr,
> arch/blackfin/include/asm/bitops.h:324:static __inline__ unsigned long
> ext2_find_next_zero_bit(void *addr,
> arch/mips/include/asm/bitops.h:830:static __inline__ unsigned long
> ext2_find_next_zero_bit(void *addr, unsigned long size, unsigned long
> offset) arch/powerpc/include/asm/bitops.h:344:static __inline__ unsigned
> long ext2_find_next_zero_bit(void *addr,

DAMN :-( Maybe we should focus on --gc-sections for whole u-boot. Anyway, I'd 
say apply this and then start working on the --gc-sections.

Best regards,
Marek Vasut


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