Patch "tools include: Add a __fallthrough statement" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    tools include: Add a __fallthrough statement

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     tools-include-add-a-__fallthrough-statement.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From b5bf1733d6a391c4e90ea8f8468d83023be74a2a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2017 17:01:46 -0300
Subject: tools include: Add a __fallthrough statement

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

commit b5bf1733d6a391c4e90ea8f8468d83023be74a2a upstream.

For cases where implicit fall through case labels are intended,
to let us inform that to gcc >= 7:

    CC       /tmp/build/perf/util/string.o
  util/string.c: In function 'perf_atoll':
  util/string.c:22:7: error: this statement may fall through [-Werror=implicit-fallthrough=]
      if (*p)
         ^
  util/string.c:24:3: note: here
     case '\0':
     ^~~~

So we introduce:

  #define __fallthrough __attribute__ ((fallthrough))

And use it in such cases.

Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Cc: William Cohen <wcohen@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-qnpig0xfop4hwv6k4mv1wts5@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 tools/include/linux/compiler.h |    9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

--- a/tools/include/linux/compiler.h
+++ b/tools/include/linux/compiler.h
@@ -115,4 +115,13 @@ static __always_inline void __write_once
 #define WRITE_ONCE(x, val) \
 	({ union { typeof(x) __val; char __c[1]; } __u = { .__val = (val) }; __write_once_size(&(x), __u.__c, sizeof(x)); __u.__val; })
 
+
+#ifndef __fallthrough
+# if defined(__GNUC__) && __GNUC__ >= 7
+#  define __fallthrough __attribute__ ((fallthrough))
+# else
+#  define __fallthrough
+# endif
+#endif
+
 #endif /* _TOOLS_LINUX_COMPILER_H */


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from acme@redhat.com are

queue-4.4/perf-tools-use-readdir-instead-of-deprecated-readdir_r.patch
queue-4.4/perf-thread_map-correctly-size-buffer-used-with-dirent-dt_name.patch
queue-4.4/perf-tests-remove-wrong-semicolon-in-while-loop-in-cqm-test.patch
queue-4.4/perf-annotate-browser-fix-behaviour-of-shift-tab-with-nothing-focussed.patch
queue-4.4/perf-tests-avoid-possible-truncation-with-dirent-d_name-snprintf.patch
queue-4.4/perf-top-use-__fallthrough.patch
queue-4.4/perf-scripting-perl-fix-compile-error-with-some-perl5-versions.patch
queue-4.4/perf-bench-numa-avoid-possible-truncation-when-using-snprintf.patch
queue-4.4/perf-tools-use-readdir-instead-of-deprecated-readdir_r-again.patch
queue-4.4/perf-thread_map-use-readdir-instead-of-deprecated-readdir_r.patch
queue-4.4/perf-tools-remove-duplicate-const-qualifier.patch
queue-4.4/tools-string-use-__fallthrough-in-perf_atoll.patch
queue-4.4/perf-intel-pt-use-__fallthrough.patch
queue-4.4/perf-script-use-readdir-instead-of-deprecated-readdir_r.patch
queue-4.4/tools-include-add-a-__fallthrough-statement.patch
queue-4.4/tools-strfilter-use-__fallthrough.patch
queue-4.4/perf-dwarf-guard-x86_64-definitions-under-ifdef-else-clause.patch
queue-4.4/perf-pmu-fix-misleadingly-indented-assignment-whitespace.patch
queue-4.4/perf-trace-do-not-process-perf_record_lost-twice.patch