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author | Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> | 2016-04-15 16:17:10 +0200 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2016-04-16 11:14:17 +0200 |
commit | b1547d3101e74e809b9790174b27f1080747b009 (patch) | |
tree | f5eeb80c700d7dcaf512338063a07751d79d281d /arch/.gitignore | |
parent | objtool: Add workaround for GCC switch jump table bug (diff) | |
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objtool: Detect falling through to the next function
There are several cases in compiled C code where a function may not
return at the end, and may instead fall through to the next function.
That may indicate a bug in the code, or a gcc bug, or even an objtool
bug. But in each case, objtool reports an unhelpful warning, something
like:
drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_attr.o: warning: objtool: qla2x00_get_fc_host_stats()+0x0: duplicate frame pointer save
drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_attr.o: warning: objtool: qla2x00_get_fc_host_stats()+0x0: frame pointer state mismatch
Detect this situation and print a more useful error message:
drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_attr.o: warning: objtool: qla2x00_get_host_fabric_name() falls through to next function qla2x00_get_starget_node_name()
Also add some information about this warning and its potential causes to
the documentation.
Reported-by: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/caa4ec6c687931db805e692d4e4bf06cd87d33e6.1460729697.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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