From 7b2a35132ad0a70902dcd2844c27ed64cda0ce9b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 08:50:52 +0800
Subject: 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>
---
 include/linux/compiler.h | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

(limited to 'include/linux/compiler.h')

diff --git a/include/linux/compiler.h b/include/linux/compiler.h
index 04fb513..7947f4f 100644
--- a/include/linux/compiler.h
+++ b/include/linux/compiler.h
@@ -213,6 +213,10 @@ void ftrace_likely_update(struct ftrace_branch_data *f, int val, int expect);
 # define __maybe_unused		/* unimplemented */
 #endif
 
+#ifndef __always_unused
+# define __always_unused	/* unimplemented */
+#endif
+
 #ifndef noinline
 #define noinline
 #endif
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