[PATCH] powerpc/perf: Add missing break in power7_marked_instr_event()

Michael Ellerman mpe at ellerman.id.au
Mon Sep 24 17:03:21 AEST 2018


Segher Boessenkool <segher at kernel.crashing.org> writes:

> On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 03:29:22PM +0530, Madhavan Srinivasan wrote:
>> On Thursday 20 September 2018 03:11 PM, Michael Ellerman wrote:
>> >In power7_marked_instr_event() there is a switch case that is missing
>> >a break or an explicit fallthrough, it's not immediately clear which
>> >it should be.
>
>> Just curious to know, how did you find this. Static code checker compiled
>> or any specific compiler warnings or just by code read?
>
> Newer GCC warns about suspicious fallthroughs (-Wimplicit-fallthrough,
> which is in -Wextra).

Yeah I actually turned -Wimplicit-fallthrough on manually.

I'm hoping to add that to our CFLAGS once I've merged this fix and
worked out the Kbuild magic to add it to CFLAGS just for arch/powerpc.

cheers


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