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    pinctrl: ingenic: Improve unreachable code generation · d6d43a92
    Josh Poimboeuf authored
    In the second loop of ingenic_pinconf_set(), it annotates the switch
    default case as unreachable().  The annotation is technically correct,
    because that same case would have resulted in an early function return
    in the previous loop.
    
    However, the compiled code is suboptimal.  GCC seems to work extra hard
    to ensure that the unreachable code path triggers undefined behavior.
    The function would fall through to start executing whatever function
    happens to be next in the compilation unit.
    
    This is problematic because:
    
      a) it adds unnecessary 'ensure undefined behavior' logic, and
         corresponding i-cache footprint; and
    
      b) it's less robust -- if a bug were to be introduced, falling through
         to the next function would be catastrophic.
    
    Yet another issue is that, while objtool normally understands
    unreachable() annotations, there's one special case where it doesn't:
    when the annotation occurs immediately after a 'ret' instruction.  That
    happens to be the case here because unreachable() is immediately before
    the return.
    
    Remove the unreachable() annotation and replace it with a comment.  This
    simplifies the code generation and changes the unreachable error path to
    just silently return instead of corrupting execution.
    
    This fixes the following objtool warning:
    
      drivers/pinctrl/pinctrl-ingenic.o: warning: objtool: ingenic_pinconf_set() falls through to next function ingenic_pinconf_group_set()
    Reported-by: default avatarRandy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJosh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/bc20fdbcb826512cf76b7dfd0972740875931b19.1582212881.git.jpoimboe@redhat.comSigned-off-by: default avatarLinus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
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