+ mm-remove-unwanted-initialization-in-vmemmap_populate_compound_pages.patch added to mm-unstable branch

+ mm-remove-unwanted-initialization-in-vmemmap_populate_compound_pages.patch added to mm-unstable branch

[Andrew Morton]

The patch titled
     Subject: mm/sparse-vmemmap.c: remove unwanted initialization in vmemmap_populate_compound_pages()
has been added to the -mm mm-unstable branch.  Its filename is
     mm-remove-unwanted-initialization-in-vmemmap_populate_compound_pages.patch

This patch will shortly appear at
     https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/mm-remove-unwanted-initialization-in-vmemmap_populate_compound_pages.patch

This patch will later appear in the mm-unstable branch at
    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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From: Gautam Menghani <gautammenghani201@gmail.com>
Subject: mm/sparse-vmemmap.c: remove unwanted initialization in vmemmap_populate_compound_pages()
Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2022 11:23:20 -0700

Remove unwanted initialization for the variable 'next'.  This fixes the
clang scan warning: Value stored to 'next' during its initialization is
never read [deadcode.DeadStores]

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220612182320.160651-1-gautammenghani201@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Gautam Menghani <gautammenghani201@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 mm/sparse-vmemmap.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c~mm-remove-unwanted-initialization-in-vmemmap_populate_compound_pages
+++ a/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c
@@ -737,7 +737,7 @@ static int __meminit vmemmap_populate_co
 
 	size = min(end - start, pgmap_vmemmap_nr(pgmap) * sizeof(struct page));
 	for (addr = start; addr < end; addr += size) {
-		unsigned long next = addr, last = addr + size;
+		unsigned long next, last = addr + size;
 
 		/* Populate the head page vmemmap page */
 		pte = vmemmap_populate_address(addr, node, NULL, NULL);
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from gautammenghani201@gmail.com are

mm-remove-unwanted-initialization-in-vmemmap_populate_compound_pages.patch