Re: [EXT4 set 3][PATCH 1/1] ext4 nanosecond timestamp

[Kalpak Shah <kalpak@clusterfs.com>]

On Mon, 2007-07-16 at 17:49 -0700, Mingming Cao wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-07-10 at 16:30 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Sun, 01 Jul 2007 03:36:56 -0400
> > Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> > > +static inline __le32 ext4_encode_extra_time(struct timespec *time)
> > > +{
> > > +       return cpu_to_le32((sizeof(time->tv_sec) > 4 ?
> > > +			   time->tv_sec >> 32 : 0) |
> > > +			   ((time->tv_nsec << 2) & EXT4_NSEC_MASK));
> > > +}
> > > +
> > > +static inline void ext4_decode_extra_time(struct timespec *time, __le32 extra)
> > > +{
> > > +       if (sizeof(time->tv_sec) > 4)
> > > +	       time->tv_sec |= (__u64)(le32_to_cpu(extra) & EXT4_EPOCH_MASK)
> > > +			       << 32;
> > > +       time->tv_nsec = (le32_to_cpu(extra) & EXT4_NSEC_MASK) >> 2;
> > > +}
> > 
> > Consider uninlining these functions.
> > 
> I got compile warining after apply Kalpal's update nanosecond patch,
> which makes these two function inline. It complains these functions are
> defined but not used. It's being used only in the following
> micros(EXT4_INODE_SET_XTIME etc).  So if the .c file included the
> ext4_fs.h but not using the micros, the compile will think these two
> functions are not used.

The compile warnings were introduced because the functions were
uninlined. So we can either keep these functions inlined or consider
adding a "__used" attribute to these two functions. 

Thanks,
Kalpak.

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