Re: [PATCH] lib/zlib_inflate/inffast: Check config in C to avoid unused function warning

[Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>]

Hi Paul,

On 9/16/2021 7:22 AM, Paul Menzel wrote:
> Building Linux for ppc64le with Ubuntu clang version 12.0.0-3ubuntu1~21.04.1
> shows the warning below.
> 
>      arch/powerpc/boot/inffast.c:20:1: warning: unused function 'get_unaligned16' [-Wunused-function]
>      get_unaligned16(const unsigned short *p)
>      ^
>      1 warning generated.
> 
> Fix it, by moving the check from the preprocessor to C, so the compiler
> sees the use.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Paul Menzel <pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de>
> ---
>   lib/zlib_inflate/inffast.c | 6 +-----
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/lib/zlib_inflate/inffast.c b/lib/zlib_inflate/inffast.c
> index f19c4fbe1be7..444ad3c3ccd3 100644
> --- a/lib/zlib_inflate/inffast.c
> +++ b/lib/zlib_inflate/inffast.c
> @@ -254,11 +254,7 @@ void inflate_fast(z_streamp strm, unsigned start)
>   			sfrom = (unsigned short *)(from);
>   			loops = len >> 1;
>   			do
> -#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS
> -			    *sout++ = *sfrom++;
> -#else
> -			    *sout++ = get_unaligned16(sfrom++);
> -#endif
> +			    *sout++ = CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS ? *sfrom++ : get_unaligned16(sfrom++);
>   			while (--loops);
>   			out = (unsigned char *)sout;
>   			from = (unsigned char *)sfrom;
> 

Thanks for the patch. This should probably be

IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS) ? ...

which matches the rest of the kernel tree, as certain CONFIG_... values 
are not guaranteed to always be defined.

Cheers,
Nathan