Re: [PATCH] xtensa: remove redundant flush_dcache_page and ARCH_IMPLEMENTS_FLUSH_DCACHE_PAGE macros

[Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>]

On Wed, Mar 13, 2024 at 05:50:36PM +1300, Barry Song wrote:
> From: Barry Song <v-songbaohua@oppo.com>
> 
> xtensa's flush_dcache_page() can be a no-op sometimes. There is a
> generic implementation for this case in include/asm-generic/
> cacheflush.h.
>  #ifndef ARCH_IMPLEMENTS_FLUSH_DCACHE_PAGE
>  static inline void flush_dcache_page(struct page *page)
>  {
>  }
> 
>  #define ARCH_IMPLEMENTS_FLUSH_DCACHE_PAGE 0
>  #endif
> 
> So remove the superfluous flush_dcache_page() definition, which also
> helps silence potential build warnings complaining the page variable
> passed to flush_dcache_page() is not used.
> 
>    In file included from crypto/scompress.c:12:
>    include/crypto/scatterwalk.h: In function 'scatterwalk_pagedone':
>    include/crypto/scatterwalk.h:76:30: warning: variable 'page' set but not used [-Wunused-but-set-variable]
>       76 |                 struct page *page;
>          |                              ^~~~
>    crypto/scompress.c: In function 'scomp_acomp_comp_decomp':
> >> crypto/scompress.c:174:38: warning: unused variable 'dst_page' [-Wunused-variable]
>      174 |                         struct page *dst_page = sg_page(req->dst);
>          |
> 
> The issue was originally reported on LoongArch by kernel test
> robot. And Huacai fixed it on LoongArch, but I found xtensa
> obviously has the same issue.
> 

Maybe I am doing something wrong, but this patch doesn't build
for me.

 CC      arch/xtensa/kernel/asm-offsets.s
In file included from ./include/linux/highmem.h:8,
                 from ./include/linux/bvec.h:10,
                 from ./include/linux/blk_types.h:10,
                 from ./include/linux/writeback.h:13,
                 from ./include/linux/memcontrol.h:23,
                 from ./include/linux/swap.h:9,
                 from ./include/linux/suspend.h:5,
                 from arch/xtensa/kernel/asm-offsets.c:24:
./include/linux/cacheflush.h:9:5: error: "ARCH_IMPLEMENTS_FLUSH_DCACHE_PAGE" is not defined, evaluates to 0 [-Werror=undef]
    9 | #if ARCH_IMPLEMENTS_FLUSH_DCACHE_PAGE

Guenter