linux-kernel - Re: Intel PT decoder switch case fallthrough cases reported by gcc 7

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Date:   Thu, 9 Feb 2017 16:02:07 -0300
From:   Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>
To:     Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Cc:     Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>,
        Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>,
        Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Intel PT decoder switch case fallthrough cases reported by gcc 7

Em Thu, Feb 09, 2017 at 10:25:19AM -0800, Andi Kleen escreveu:
> On Thu, Feb 09, 2017 at 01:50:39PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > 	I've updated the container with Fedora Rawhide I use to build
> > tools/perf/ and samples/bcc/ and it now comes with gcc 7, where I get
> > things like:
> 
> FWIW, but it just shows that you should never ship software with -Werror
> enabled. New compiler releases add new warnings, and you just randomly
> break the build for users who use newer compilers.
> 
> It's ok to use in your own builds, but should never be default.
> 
> The kernel gets it right, but perf is wrong here.

But what about my question? Do you think the changes are ok? I actually
made all be fallthrough, i.e. considered that the existing code was ok.

- Arnaldo