Re: [PATCH] [v2] arm64: define BUG() instruction without CONFIG_BUG

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Wed Mar 22 2017 - 10:52:16 EST


On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 3:37 PM, Catalin Marinas
<catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.

Taht was certainly not intended, and I don't see yet what exactly is going on.
What is your setting for CONFIG_BUG and CONFIG_BUGVERBOSE?

Arnd