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From: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
To: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>,
	Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>,
	Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com>,
	Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>,
	linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] s390/ipl: Mark store_status as __noreturn
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2025 16:06:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251110150635.15528B2f-hca@linux.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251110132803.1520-1-thorsten.blum@linux.dev>

On Mon, Nov 10, 2025 at 02:27:51PM +0100, Thorsten Blum wrote:
> store_status() performs a tail call (BR_EX) to the function passed as
> the first parameter and does not return. Annotate the declaration with
> the __noreturn attribute to improve compiler optimizations.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
> ---
>  arch/s390/include/asm/ipl.h | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

This doesn't make any sense. If a function is called, which calls
another one with a tail call, then _of course_ it looks to the caller
like the function returned.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2025-11-10 15:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-11-10 13:27 [PATCH 1/5] s390/ipl: Mark store_status as __noreturn Thorsten Blum
2025-11-10 13:27 ` [PATCH 2/5] s390/kdump: Mark __machine_kdump " Thorsten Blum
2025-11-10 13:27 ` [PATCH 3/5] s390/kdump: Mark __do_machine_kexec " Thorsten Blum
2025-11-10 13:27 ` [PATCH 4/5] s390/kdump: Mark __machine_kexec " Thorsten Blum
2025-11-10 13:27 ` [PATCH 5/5] s390/kdump: Mark __do_machine_kdump " Thorsten Blum
2025-11-10 15:06 ` Heiko Carstens [this message]
2025-11-11  7:00   ` [PATCH 1/5] s390/ipl: Mark store_status " Thorsten Blum

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