objtool is throwing *unannotated intra-function call* warnings in .c files with a few instructions that are marked unreachable. The problem comes from the annotate_unreachable() macro that is called by unreachable(). This annotation is adding a call to a function with size 0, and objtool does not add such symbols to the rbtree. Due to this reason, find_call_destination() function is not able to find the destination symbol for that call.
With the annotation (annotate_unreachable()), gcc seems to generate a 'bl' to unreachable symbol with size 0. But with the builtin variant of unreachable (__builtin_unreachable()), gcc does not emit calls to such symbols and the warnings go away. Given that the codegen remains same, and that there are no 'bl' instructions to such symbols emitted, fix these warnings by replacing unreachable() with it's builtin variant in __WARN_FLAGS(). Also, add barrier_before_unreachable() before __builtin_unreachable() to work around a gcc bug [1], for the problem reported at [2]. [1]: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=106751 [2]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2022/8/25/418 Signed-off-by: Sathvika Vasireddy <s...@linux.ibm.com> --- arch/powerpc/include/asm/bug.h | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/bug.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/bug.h index 61a4736355c2..ef42adb44aa3 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/bug.h +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/bug.h @@ -99,7 +99,8 @@ __label__ __label_warn_on; \ \ WARN_ENTRY("twi 31, 0, 0", BUGFLAG_WARNING | (flags), __label_warn_on); \ - unreachable(); \ + barrier_before_unreachable(); \ + __builtin_unreachable(); \ \ __label_warn_on: \ break; \ -- 2.31.1
