From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751582AbaCaWMb (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Mar 2014 18:12:31 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:49678 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750987AbaCaWM3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Mar 2014 18:12:29 -0400 Message-ID: <5339E81C.4010901@zytor.com> Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 15:11:40 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Behan Webster , arnd@arndb.de CC: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dwmw2@infradead.org, pageexec@freemail.hu, Mark Charlebois Subject: Re: [PATCH] LLVMLinux: Remove warning about returning an uninitialized variable References: <1395470329-15065-1-git-send-email-behanw@converseincode.com> <5339D57A.4050504@zytor.com> <5339E7CB.2080001@converseincode.com> In-Reply-To: <5339E7CB.2080001@converseincode.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 03/31/2014 03:10 PM, Behan Webster wrote: >>> >>> diff --git a/include/asm-generic/cmpxchg-local.h >>> b/include/asm-generic/cmpxchg-local.h >>> index d8d4c89..4c41bb8 100644 >>> --- a/include/asm-generic/cmpxchg-local.h >>> +++ b/include/asm-generic/cmpxchg-local.h >>> @@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ static inline unsigned long >>> __cmpxchg_local_generic(volatile void *ptr, >>> break; >>> default: >>> wrong_size_cmpxchg(ptr); >>> + prev = 0; >>> } >>> raw_local_irq_restore(flags); >>> return prev; >>> >> Shouldn't this be a build time assert (__compiletime_error())? > I changed it to a __noreturn on wrong_size_cmpxchg thanks to James > Bottomley. > > Which would be better? > __compiletime_error traps at compile time rather than link time, which is what you want. -hpa