Re: [PATCH] [v2] arm64: define BUG() instruction without CONFIG_BUG
From: Catalin Marinas
Date: Wed Mar 22 2017 - 10:37:57 EST
Hi Arnd,
On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 10:39:21PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> This mirrors commit e9c38ceba8d9 ("ARM: 8455/1: define __BUG as
> asm(BUG_INSTR) without CONFIG_BUG") to make the behavior of
> arm64 consistent with arm and x86, and avoids lots of warnings in
> randconfig builds, such as:
>
> kernel/seccomp.c: In function '__seccomp_filter':
> kernel/seccomp.c:666:1: error: no return statement in function returning non-void [-Werror=return-type]
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
A side-effect of this patch is that it turns WARN into BUG. I hit the
WARN_ONCE in arch/arm64/kernel/efi.c:34 (on Juno with 64K pages) and
with your patch applied, the kernel panics.
--
Catalin