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authorLi Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>2009-11-02 08:50:52 +0800
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-11-02 15:47:54 +0100
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compiler: Introduce __always_unused
I wrote some code which is used as compile-time checker, and the code should be elided after compile. So I need to annotate the code as "always unused", compared to "maybe unused". Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> LKML-Reference: <4AEE2CEC.8040206@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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diff --git a/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h b/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h
index a3ed7cb..73dcf80 100644
--- a/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h
+++ b/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h
@@ -79,6 +79,7 @@
#define noinline __attribute__((noinline))
#define __attribute_const__ __attribute__((__const__))
#define __maybe_unused __attribute__((unused))
+#define __always_unused __attribute__((unused))
#define __gcc_header(x) #x
#define _gcc_header(x) __gcc_header(linux/compiler-gcc##x.h)
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