linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] MIPS: Sanitise Cavium switch cases in TLB handler synthesizers

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Date:   Mon, 7 Mar 2022 13:21:17 +0100
From:   Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@...ha.franken.de>
To:     "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@...am.me.uk>
Cc:     linux-mips@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MIPS: Sanitise Cavium switch cases in TLB handler
 synthesizers

On Fri, Mar 04, 2022 at 09:13:11PM +0000, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> It makes no sense to fall through to `break'.  Therefore reorder the 
> switch statements so as to have the Cavium cases first, followed by the 
> default case, which improves readability and pacifies code analysis 
> tools.  No change in semantics, assembly produced is exactly the same.
> 
> Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@...el.com>
> Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@...am.me.uk>
> Fixes: bc431d2153cc ("MIPS: Fix fall-through warnings for Clang")
> ---
>  arch/mips/mm/tlbex.c |   23 ++++++++++-------------
>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

applied to mips-next.

Thomas.

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