In the later patch, we will remove noreturn attribute for die(), in order to make each patch can be built without errors and warnings, just add a noreturn function BUG() at the end of nmi_exception_handler() to make sure it does not return, otherwise there exists the following build error after the later patch: arch/mips/kernel/traps.c:2001:1: error: 'noreturn' function does return [-Werror] Signed-off-by: Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/mips/kernel/traps.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/traps.c b/arch/mips/kernel/traps.c index 246c6a6..b1b68ce 100644 --- a/arch/mips/kernel/traps.c +++ b/arch/mips/kernel/traps.c @@ -1998,6 +1998,7 @@ void __noreturn nmi_exception_handler(struct pt_regs *regs) regs->cp0_epc = read_c0_errorepc(); die(str, regs); nmi_exit(); + BUG(); } unsigned long ebase; -- 2.1.0