Re: [PATCH] x86/mm: annotate no_context with UNWIND_HINTS

[Josh Poimboeuf]

On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 09:03:40AM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> That being said, the generic macro is:
> 
> # define unreachable() do { annotate_reachable(); do { } while (1); } while (0)
> 
> I'm probably missing some subtlety here, but shouldn't that be
> annotate_*un*reachable()?

That code should have had a comment, but that subtlety was intentional.
As I mentioned earlier, that was a hack for old versions of GCC which
didn't have __builtin_unreachable().  In those cases, GCC doesn't treat
"ud2" as fatal, so this was a way of telling objtool that.  Luckily we
can get rid of this hack now that the minimum supported GCC version has
gone up to 4.6.

-- 
Josh