Hi Peter,

On Mon, 20 Sep 2021 13:18:53 +0200 Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Sep 20, 2021 at 11:33:30AM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > 
> > After merging the tip tree, today's linux-next build (powerpc_ppc64
> > defconfig) produced this warning:
> > 
> > kernel/sched/debug.c: In function 'print_cfs_group_stats':
> > kernel/sched/debug.c:460:41: warning: unused variable 'stats' [-Wunused-variable]
> >   460 |                struct sched_statistics *stats =  __schedstats_from_se(se);
> >       |                                         ^~~~~
> 
> So I've not seen that one *yet*, I've dont a bunch of SCHEDSTAT=n
> builds. I do think GCC is being quite stupid for giving it, seeing how
> the whole thing is within if (0). The GCC people seem to disagree when I
> brought it up.
> 
> Anyway, what I did in other parts was the below; that seems to 'upgrade'
> the warnings from -Wunused-variable to -Wunused-but-set-variable, and
> that latter *is* in W=1, and I'm arguing it should be promoted to W=2 or
> thereabout.
> 
> Given that whole if(0) {} thing, I don't feel motivated to change things
> overly much and quite strongly feel this is the compiler being daft.
> 
> ---
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/debug.c b/kernel/sched/debug.c
> index 935dad7dffb7..ef71de01e4d7 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/debug.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/debug.c
> @@ -457,7 +457,8 @@ static void print_cfs_group_stats(struct seq_file *m, int cpu, struct task_group
>  	PN(se->sum_exec_runtime);
>  
>  	if (schedstat_enabled()) {
> -               struct sched_statistics *stats =  __schedstats_from_se(se);
> +		struct sched_statistics *stats;
> +		stats = __schedstats_from_se(se);
>  
>  		PN_SCHEDSTAT(wait_start);
>  		PN_SCHEDSTAT(sleep_start);

Any progress on this?  I am still getting the warning.

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Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell