Re: any value to "NORET_TYPE" macro?

[Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>]

Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> writes:

>> no, i think you're thinking of the alternative ATTRIB_NORET macro.
>> as you can read in my previous post, NORET_TYPE used to resolve to
>> "__volatile__" for very old gcc.  so i think it's legitimately dead
>> and can be ripped out.
>
> No doubt that it could be removed because it doesn't have any effect.
>
> But locking at the usages, it seems to have been used when people 
> thought it was what __noreturn now is, so replacing NORET_TYPE with 
> __noreturn might be a small optimization (but every NORET_TYPE should 
> be checked that it's actually correct).

Actually it seems all the NORET_TYPEs are in fact (should be)
__attribute__((noreturn)) (2.6.21):

Almost certainly:
arch/mips/kernel/traps.c:NORET_TYPE void ATTRIB_NORET die()
arch/ia64/kernel/machine_kexec.c:typedef NORET_TYPE void ()(
arch/x86_64/kernel/machine_kexec.c:NORET_TYPE void machine_kexec()
arch/arm26/kernel/traps.c:NORET_TYPE void die()
arch/ppc/kernel/machine_kexec.c:typedef NORET_TYPE void ()(
arch/ppc/kernel/machine_kexec.c:NORET_TYPE void machine_kexec()
arch/ppc/amiga/config.c:static NORET_TYPE void amiga_reset()
arch/powerpc/kernel/machine_kexec.c:NORET_TYPE void machine_kexec()
arch/powerpc/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c:extern NORET_TYPE void kexec_sequence()
arch/powerpc/kernel/machine_kexec_32.c:typedef NORET_TYPE void ()(
arch/sh/kernel/machine_kexec.c:typedef NORET_TYPE void ()(
arch/sh/kernel/machine_kexec.c:NORET_TYPE void machine_kexec()
arch/arm/kernel/traps.c:NORET_TYPE void die()
arch/i386/kernel/machine_kexec.c:NORET_TYPE void machine_kexec()
arch/m68k/amiga/config.c:static NORET_TYPE void amiga_reset()
drivers/s390/s390mach.c:static NORET_TYPE void s390_handle_damage()
include/asm-i386/kexec.h:asmlinkage NORET_TYPE void
include/asm-mips/ptrace.h:extern NORET_TYPE void die();
include/asm-x86_64/kexec.h:NORET_TYPE void
include/linux/kexec.h:extern NORET_TYPE void machine_kexec() ATTRIB_NORET;
include/linux/linkage.h:#define NORET_TYPE    /**/
include/linux/kernel.h:NORET_TYPE void panic()
include/linux/kernel.h:fastcall NORET_TYPE void do_exit()
include/linux/kernel.h:NORET_TYPE void complete_and_exit()
include/linux/sched.h:extern NORET_TYPE void do_group_exit();
kernel/exit.c:fastcall NORET_TYPE void do_exit()
kernel/exit.c:NORET_TYPE void complete_and_exit()
kernel/exit.c:NORET_TYPE void do_group_exit()
kernel/panic.c:NORET_TYPE void panic()

The remaining 2 ones should most probably be removed, e2fsprogs
don't use it either (it was probably used by ext[23] in-kernel
code in the past):

include/linux/ext4_fs.h:# define NORET_TYPE    /**/
include/linux/ext3_fs.h:# define NORET_TYPE    /**/

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Krzysztof Halasa