Re: [PATCH] [v2] mm: shmem: avoid build warning for CONFIG_SHMEM=n

["David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)" <david@kernel.org>]

On 12/4/25 11:55, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 04, 2025 at 11:34:24AM +0100, David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) wrote:
>> On 12/4/25 11:28, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>>> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
>>>
>>> The newly added 'flags' variable is unused and causes a warning if
>>> CONFIG_SHMEM is disabled, since the shmem_acct_size() macro it is passed
>>> into does nothing:
>>>
>>> mm/shmem.c: In function '__shmem_file_setup':
>>> mm/shmem.c:5816:23: error: unused variable 'flags' [-Werror=unused-variable]
>>>    5816 |         unsigned long flags = (vm_flags & VM_NORESERVE) ? SHMEM_F_NORESERVE : 0;
>>>         |                       ^~~~~
>>>
>>> Replace the two macros with equivalent inline functions tto get the
>>> argument checking.
>>>
>>> Fixes: 6ff1610ced56 ("mm: shmem: use SHMEM_F_* flags instead of VM_* flags")
>>
>> That's still not upstream, right?
>>
>> $ git tag --contains 6ff1610ced56
>> mm-everything-2025-11-29-19-43
>> mm-everything-2025-12-03-23-49
>> next-20251201
>> next-20251203
>> next-20251204
>>
>> So we can likely just squash it into the problematic commit before
>> proceeding with it?
> 
> It's mm-nonmm-stable, I don't think fixups can go there.

Ah, I only looked at mm-stable and mm-unstable.

Confused why this is in nomm-stable and not mm-stable.


Anyhow:

Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) <david@kernel.org>

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Cheers

David