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Commit 9385/2 introduced a few branches inside function prototypes when using CFI in order to deal with the situation where CFI inserts a few bytes of function information in front of the symbol. This is not good for older CPUs where every cycle counts. Commit 9386/2 alleviated the situation a bit by using aliases for the cache functions with identical signatures. This leaves the coherent cache flush functions *_coherent_kern_range() with these branches to the corresponing *_coherent_user_range() around, since their return type differ and they therefore cannot be aliased. Solve this by a simple ifdef so at least we can use fallthroughs when compiling without CFI enabled. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/Zi+e9M%2Ff5b%2FSto9H@shell.armlinux.org.uk/ Suggested-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.