[PATCH] mutex: make mutex_lock_nested an inline function

Peter Zijlstra peterz at infradead.org
Wed Oct 14 01:20:50 PDT 2015


> > On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 10:30:08PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > > The second argument of the mutex_lock_nested() helper is only
> > > evaluated if CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC is set. Otherwise we
> > > get this build warning for the new regulator_lock_supply
> > > function:
> > > 
> > > drivers/regulator/core.c: In function 'regulator_lock_supply':
> > > drivers/regulator/core.c:142:6: warning: unused variable 'i' [-Wunused-variable]
> > > 
> > > To avoid the warning, this patch changes the definition of
> > > mutex_lock_nested() to be static inline function rather than
> > > a macro, which tells gcc that the variable is potentially
> > > used.

Uuh, I just looked at next and saw this regulator_lock_supply()
function. How is that limited? subclass must be <8 otherwise bad things
happen.



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