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Date:   Thu, 8 Jun 2023 13:54:16 -0700
From:   Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
To:     x86@kernel.org
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        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
        Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] objtool: Improve rate-limiting for missing __noreturn
 warnings
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On Thu, Jun 08, 2023 at 09:23:32AM -0700, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> If a function with a lot of call sites is missing __noreturn, it could
> result in a lot of duplicate warnings (one for each call site).
> 
> Each call site's function is already rate-limited to one warning per
> function via WARN_INSN().  Do the same for the callee (the "missing
> __noreturn" function itself).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
> ---
>  tools/objtool/check.c | 10 +++++++---
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/objtool/check.c b/tools/objtool/check.c
> index 8936a05f0e5a..bb2ed34cb90e 100644
> --- a/tools/objtool/check.c
> +++ b/tools/objtool/check.c
> @@ -4507,9 +4507,13 @@ static int validate_reachable_instructions(struct objtool_file *file)
>  		if (prev_insn && prev_insn->dead_end) {
>  			call_dest = insn_call_dest(prev_insn);
>  			if (call_dest && !ignore_noreturn_call(prev_insn)) {
> -				WARN_INSN(insn, "%s() is missing a __noreturn annotation",
> -					  call_dest->name);
> -				warnings++;
> +				if (!call_dest->warned) {
> +					WARN_INSN(insn, "%s() is missing a __noreturn annotation",
> +						  call_dest->name);
> +					warnings++;
> +					call_dest->warned = 1;
> +				}
> +

NAK - this spits out a bunch of unreachables, will need to tweak it a
bit.

-- 
Josh