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

[Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>]

On Thu, Dec 4, 2025 at 5:29 AM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org> 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")
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> ---
> v2: make shmem_unacct_size() inline as well.

Reviewed-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>

for v2 as well, thank you for the fixes! :-)

> ---
>  mm/shmem.c | 11 +++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c
> index 3f194c9842a8..b329b5302c48 100644
> --- a/mm/shmem.c
> +++ b/mm/shmem.c
> @@ -5794,8 +5794,15 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(shmem_truncate_range);
>  #define shmem_vm_ops                           generic_file_vm_ops
>  #define shmem_anon_vm_ops                      generic_file_vm_ops
>  #define shmem_file_operations                  ramfs_file_operations
> -#define shmem_acct_size(flags, size)           0
> -#define shmem_unacct_size(flags, size)         do {} while (0)
> +
> +static inline int shmem_acct_size(unsigned long flags, loff_t size)
> +{
> +       return 0;
> +}
> +
> +static inline void shmem_unacct_size(unsigned long flags, loff_t size)
> +{
> +}
>
>  static inline struct inode *shmem_get_inode(struct mnt_idmap *idmap,
>                                 struct super_block *sb, struct inode *dir,
> --
> 2.39.5
>