Re: [tip:perf/urgent] perf/x86/intel: Mark expected switch fall-throughs

From: Kees Cook
Date: Thu Jul 25 2019 - 19:28:33 EST


On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 04:18:56PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Thu, 2019-07-25 at 19:35 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > Seriously though; I detest these patches and we really, as in _really_
> > should have done that attribute thing.
>
> At least it'll be fairly easy to convert to something
> sensible later.
>
> Variants of the equivalent of:
>
> s@/* fallthrough */@fallthrough;@
>
> with some trivial whitespace reformatting will read
> _much_ better.
>
> It's pretty scriptable.

Yup; that's been my perspective. First let's finish markings (so so
close right now), then we can do the next phase.

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Kees Cook