Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754376AbbLAPcB (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Dec 2015 10:32:01 -0500 Received: from mail-qk0-f174.google.com ([209.85.220.174]:35051 "EHLO mail-qk0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753669AbbLAPb7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Dec 2015 10:31:59 -0500 Subject: Re: no-op delay loops To: Rasmus Villemoes , Arnd Bergmann References: <87si3rbz6p.fsf@rasmusvillemoes.dk> <3228673.rOyW85ILiP@wuerfel> <874mg3b2h5.fsf@rasmusvillemoes.dk> Cc: Ralf Baechle , linux-mips@linux-mips.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Geert Uytterhoeven , "Rafael J. Wysocki" From: Richard Henderson Message-ID: <565DBD69.7000701@twiddle.net> Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2015 07:31:53 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <874mg3b2h5.fsf@rasmusvillemoes.dk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 631 Lines: 16 On 11/30/2015 01:29 PM, Rasmus Villemoes wrote: > ./arch/alpha/boot/main.c:187:1-4: no-op delay loop Not sure why this is there. The runkernel function that preceeds it cannot return, having performed an indirect branch (not a call) to the kernel start. I see no reason to actually change anything, unless someone insists that this be remove to avoid future similar analysis. r~ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/