linux-kernel - [PATCH] s390/nmi: Annotate s390_handle_damage with _

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Message-ID: <20251027084728.1362-1-thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2025 09:47:25 +0100
From: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@...ux.dev>
To: Heiko Carstens <hca@...ux.ibm.com>,
	Vasily Gorbik <gor@...ux.ibm.com>,
	Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@...ux.ibm.com>,
	Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ux.ibm.com>,
	Sven Schnelle <svens@...ux.ibm.com>
Cc: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@...ux.dev>,
	linux-s390@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] s390/nmi: Annotate s390_handle_damage with __noreturn

s390_handle_damage() ends by calling the non-returning function
disabled_wait() and therefore also never returns. Annotate it with the
__noreturn compiler attribute to improve compiler optimizations.

Remove the unreachable infinite while loop.

Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@...ux.dev>
---
 arch/s390/kernel/nmi.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/s390/kernel/nmi.c b/arch/s390/kernel/nmi.c
index 11f33243a23f..a55abbf65333 100644
--- a/arch/s390/kernel/nmi.c
+++ b/arch/s390/kernel/nmi.c
@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ static notrace void nmi_print_info(void)
 	sclp_emergency_printk(message);
 }
 
-static notrace void s390_handle_damage(void)
+static notrace void __noreturn s390_handle_damage(void)
 {
 	struct lowcore *lc = get_lowcore();
 	union ctlreg0 cr0, cr0_new;
@@ -214,7 +214,6 @@ static notrace void s390_handle_damage(void)
 	lc->mcck_new_psw = psw_save;
 	local_ctl_load(0, &cr0.reg);
 	disabled_wait();
-	while (1);
 }
 NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(s390_handle_damage);
 
-- 
2.51.0