Re: clang: objtool: native_machine_emergency_restart() falls through to next function

[Matthias Kaehlcke]

On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 05:17:16PM -0500, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 02:14:41PM -0700, Matthias Kaehlcke wrote:
> > Hi Josh,
> > 
> > with your work on objtool and the upcoming implementation of
> > -fno-delete-null-pointer-checks (https://reviews.llvm.org/D47894,
> > https://reviews.llvm.org/D47895) in clang most objtool warnings
> > for clang builds will be fixed.
> > 
> > However even with -fno-delete-null-pointer-checks we currently still
> > get a warning about native_machine_emergency_restart():
> > 
> > arch/x86/kernel/reboot.o: warning: objtool:
> >   native_machine_emergency_restart()
> >   falls through to next function machine_power_off()
> > 
> > This only occurs when building with -Oz.
> > 
> > One of our compiler engineers looked into this, LLVM optimizes the
> > return statement away since the function has an endless loop, and
> > actually never returns.
> > 
> > Is there a way to tell objtool that the function is not expected to
> > return (I tried the attribute __noreturn, but it doesn't make a
> > difference), or do we have to tell clang to restrain from optimizing
> > returns out?
> > 
> > To repro:
> > 
> > git checkout v4.16
> > make CC=clang defconfig
> > echo "CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE=y" >> .config
> > make CC=clang arch/x86/kernel/reboot.o
> 
> Hi Matthias,
> 
> Objtool can't detect 'noreturn' functions, so unfortunately we have to
> keep a manual list.  Does this fix it?
> 
> diff --git a/tools/objtool/check.c b/tools/objtool/check.c
> index 5409f6f6c48d..ace3f85701c8 100644
> --- a/tools/objtool/check.c
> +++ b/tools/objtool/check.c
> @@ -139,6 +139,7 @@ static int __dead_end_function(struct objtool_file *file, struct symbol *func,
>  		"lbug_with_loc",
>  		"fortify_panic",
>  		"usercopy_abort",
> +		"machine_real_restart",
>  	};
>  
>  	if (func->bind == STB_WEAK)

Yes this helps, thanks for having a look!

Could you send this as an official patch or should I do it (crediting
you)?

Thanks

Matthias