Re: [PATCH 1/5] s390/ipl: Mark store_status as __noreturn

[Heiko Carstens]

On Mon, Nov 10, 2025 at 02:27:51PM +0100, Thorsten Blum wrote:
> store_status() performs a tail call (BR_EX) to the function passed as
> the first parameter and does not return. Annotate the declaration with
> the __noreturn attribute to improve compiler optimizations.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  arch/s390/include/asm/ipl.h | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

This doesn't make any sense. If a function is called, which calls
another one with a tail call, then _of course_ it looks to the caller
like the function returned.