linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86/sev: Mark snp

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Date:   Wed, 24 Aug 2022 11:44:35 -0700
From:   Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
To:     Segher Boessenkool <segher@...nel.crashing.org>
Cc:     Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>,
        Michael Matz <matz@...e.de>, linux-toolchains@...r.kernel.org,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/sev: Mark snp_abort() noreturn

On Wed, Aug 24, 2022 at 10:33 AM Segher Boessenkool
<segher@...nel.crashing.org> wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> On Wed, Aug 24, 2022 at 05:24:20PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > Mark both the function prototype and definition as noreturn in order to
> > prevent the compiler from doing transformations which confuse objtool
> > like so:
> >
> >   vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: sme_enable+0x71: unreachable instruction
>
> Would -Wmissing-noreturn have caught this?

Oh, that's shiny. Is that relatively new?
-- 
Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers