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| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c index e648ba4f70e0..51633d74a21e 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c +++ b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c @@ -845,9 +845,14 @@ static int rb_tail_page_update(struct ring_buffer_per_cpu *cpu_buffer, * This will only succeed if an interrupt did * not come in and change it. In which case, we * do not want to modify it. + * + * We add (void) to let the compiler know that we do not care + * about the return value of these functions. We use the + * cmpxchg to only update if an interrupt did not already + * do it for us. If the cmpxchg fails, we don't care. */ - local_cmpxchg(&next_page->write, old_write, val); - local_cmpxchg(&next_page->entries, old_entries, eval); + (void)local_cmpxchg(&next_page->write, old_write, val); + (void)local_cmpxchg(&next_page->entries, old_entries, eval); /* * No need to worry about races with clearing out the commit. |