Gautam Menghani [off-list ref] writes:

On Thu, Jul 06, 2023 at 05:50:57PM +1000, Jordan Niethe wrote:

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On 30/6/23 3:56 pm, Gautam Menghani wrote:

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Remove an unnecessary piece of code that does an endianness conversion but
does not use the result. The following warning was reported by Clang's
static analyzer:

arch/powerpc/sysdev/xics/ics-opal.c:114:2: warning: Value stored to
'server' is never read [deadcode.DeadStores]
         server = be16_to_cpu(oserver);

As the result of endianness conversion is never used, delete the line
and fix the warning.

Signed-off-by: Gautam Menghani <redacted>

'server' was used as a parameter to opal_get_xive() in commit 5c7c1e9444d8
("powerpc/powernv: Add OPAL ICS backend") when it was introduced. 'server'
was also used in an error message for the call to opal_get_xive().

'server' was always later set by a call to ics_opal_mangle_server() before
being used.

Commit bf8e0f891a32 ("powerpc/powernv: Fix endian issues in OPAL ICS
backend") used a new variable 'oserver' as the parameter to opal_get_xive()
instead of 'server' for endian correctness. It also removed 'server' from
the error message for the call to opal_get_xive().

It was commit bf8e0f891a32 that added the unnecessary conversion and never
used the result.

Reviewed-by: Jordan Niethe <redacted>

Hello Michael, 

Do you have any more questions on this patch or is it good to go?

I was expecting you'd send a v2 with the changelog updated to include
all the extra detail Jordan added. I think it should also be tagged as
Fixes: bf8e0f891a32.

cheers