linux-kernel - [PATCH] MIPS: Make BUG() _

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Date:	Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:26:36 -0800
From:	David Daney <ddaney@...iumnetworks.com>
To:	linux-mips <linux-mips@...ux-mips.org>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] MIPS: Make BUG() __noreturn.

MIPS: Make BUG() __noreturn.

Often we do things like put BUG() in the default clause of a case
statement.  Since it was not declared __noreturn, this could sometimes
lead to bogus compiler warnings that variables were used
uninitialized.

There is a small problem in that we have to put a magic while(1); loop to
fool GCC into really thinking it is noreturn.  This makes the new
BUG() function 3 instructions long instead of just 1, but I think it
is worth it as it is now unnecessary to do extra work to silence the
'used uninitialized' warnings.

I also re-wrote BUG_ON so that if it is given a constant condition, it
just does BUG() instead of loading a constant value in to a register
and testing it.

Signed-off-by: David Daney <ddaney@...iumnetworks.com>
---
 arch/mips/include/asm/bug.h |   29 ++++++++++++++++++++---------
 1 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/mips/include/asm/bug.h b/arch/mips/include/asm/bug.h
index 7eb63de..08ea468 100644
--- a/arch/mips/include/asm/bug.h
+++ b/arch/mips/include/asm/bug.h
@@ -7,20 +7,31 @@

 #include <asm/break.h>

-#define BUG()								\
-do {									\
-	__asm__ __volatile__("break %0" : : "i" (BRK_BUG));		\
-} while (0)
+static inline void __noreturn BUG(void)
+{
+	__asm__ __volatile__("break %0" : : "i" (BRK_BUG));
+	/* Fool GCC into thinking the function doesn't return. */
+	while (1)
+		;
+}

 #define HAVE_ARCH_BUG

 #if (_MIPS_ISA > _MIPS_ISA_MIPS1)

-#define BUG_ON(condition)						\
-do {									\
-	__asm__ __volatile__("tne $0, %0, %1"				\
-			     : : "r" (condition), "i" (BRK_BUG));	\
-} while (0)
+static inline void  __BUG_ON(unsigned long condition)
+{
+	if (__builtin_constant_p(condition)) {
+		if (condition)
+			BUG();
+		else
+			return;
+	}
+	__asm__ __volatile__("tne $0, %0, %1"
+			     : : "r" (condition), "i" (BRK_BUG));
+}
+
+#define BUG_ON(C) __BUG_ON((unsigned long)(C))

 #define HAVE_ARCH_BUG_ON

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