linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 2/3] s390/kdump: Mark __machine_kexec as _

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Message-ID: <20251114110358.169429-4-thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2025 12:03:54 +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 v2 2/3] s390/kdump: Mark __machine_kexec as __noreturn

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

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

diff --git a/arch/s390/kernel/machine_kexec.c b/arch/s390/kernel/machine_kexec.c
index 9be6f58a6553..1d1c709bc088 100644
--- a/arch/s390/kernel/machine_kexec.c
+++ b/arch/s390/kernel/machine_kexec.c
@@ -248,7 +248,7 @@ static void __noreturn __do_machine_kexec(void *data)
 /*
  * Reset system and call either kdump or normal kexec
  */
-static void __machine_kexec(void *data)
+static void __noreturn __machine_kexec(void *data)
 {
 	pfault_fini();
 	tracing_off();
-- 
2.51.1