linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] perf/x86/intel: Mark expected switch fall-throughs

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Date:   Tue, 25 Jun 2019 09:15:28 +0200
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>
Cc:     Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
        Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>,
        Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>,
        Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, x86@...nel.org,
        Kan Liang <kan.liang@...ux.intel.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com>,
        Shawn Landden <shawn@....icu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf/x86/intel: Mark expected switch fall-throughs

On Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 03:53:04PM -0500, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
> Once the C++17 `__attribute__((fallthrough))` is more widely handled by C compilers,

>From what I read that attribute landed in the exact same GCC version as
the warning. And last I checked clang wasn't there yet anyway.

> static analyzers, and IDEs, we can switch to using that instead. Also, we are a few

I don't give a crap about lousy IDEs. And coverity already supports the
attribute and other checkers are open-source and can be easily fixed or
ignored.

> warnings away (less than five) from being able to enable -Wimplicit-fallthrough. After
> this option has been finally enabled (in v5.3) we can easily go and replace the comments
> to whatever we agree upon.

Feh. Still an abomination.