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Message-ID: <20221123191242.GG4001@paulmck-ThinkPad-P17-Gen-1>
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2022 11:12:42 -0800
From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>
To: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...nel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, sfr@...b.auug.org.au,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: objtool warning for next-20221118
On Wed, Nov 23, 2022 at 10:19:41AM -0800, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 23, 2022 at 09:49:51AM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > > > > Perhaps the best way would be to stick a REACHABLE annotation in
> > > > > arch_cpu_idle_dead() or something?
> > > >
> > > > When I apply this on -next, I still get the objtool complaint.
> > > > Is there something else I should also be doing?
> > >
> > > Silly GCC is folding the inline asm. This works (but still doesn't seem
> > > like the right approach):
> > >
> > > diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
> > > index 26e8f57c75ad..128e7d78fedf 100644
> > > --- a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
> > > +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
> > > @@ -702,7 +702,7 @@ static void (*x86_idle)(void);
> > > #ifndef CONFIG_SMP
> > > static inline void play_dead(void)
> > > {
> > > - BUG();
> > > + _BUG_FLAGS(ASM_UD2, 0, ASM_REACHABLE);
> > > }
> > > #endif
> >
> > I tried this, and still get:
> >
> > vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: do_idle+0x156: unreachable instruction
> >
> > Maybe my gcc is haunted?
>
> Weird, it worked for me. I have
>
> gcc version 12.2.1 20220819 (Red Hat 12.2.1-2) (GCC)
Me, I have these, so quite a bit older:
gcc version 8.5.0 20210514 (Red Hat 8.5.0-15) (GCC)
gcc version 9.4.0 (Ubuntu 9.4.0-1ubuntu1~20.04.1)
> and I can't really fathom why that wouldn't work. Maybe it's a
> different issue? The "unreachable instruction" warning is limited to
> one, so when a first warning gets fixed, a second warning might suddenly
> become visible.
>
> Can you attach arch/x86/kernel/process.o?
Attached!
Thanx, Paul
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