Re: [PATCH] drm/xe: Fix warning on unreachable statement

[Michal Wajdeczko <michal.wajdeczko@intel.com>]

On 19.07.2024 21:15, Lucas De Marchi wrote:
> eu_type_to_str() relies on -Wswitch to warn (and -Werror) to make sure
> it handles all enum values. However it's perfectly legal to pass an int
> to that function so in the end that function may happen to return
> nothing. A smart compiler could notice eu_type is never assigned to
> anything other than those values.
> 
> Trying to reproduce this issue, none of gcc-9, gcc-10 and gcc-13
> triggered for me, but this was reported in a different system with
> gcc-10:
> 
> 	drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe.o: warning: objtool: xe_gt_topology_dump() falls through to next function xe_gt_topology_init()
> 
> Since that is not really possible, just take the simple approach and
> return NULL.
> 
> Cc: Michal Wajdeczko <michal.wajdeczko@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@intel.com>

Reviewed-by: Michal Wajdeczko <michal.wajdeczko@intel.com>

> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_gt_topology.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_gt_topology.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_gt_topology.c
> index 5a1559edf3e9..0662f71c6ede 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_gt_topology.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_gt_topology.c
> @@ -233,7 +233,7 @@ static const char *eu_type_to_str(enum xe_gt_eu_type eu_type)
>  		return "simd8";
>  	}
>  
> -	unreachable();
> +	return NULL;
>  }
>  
>  void