2 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/compiler-gcc4.h b/include/linux/compiler-gcc4.h
index 450fa597c94d..ab3af40a53c6 100644
--- a/include/linux/compiler-gcc4.h
+++ b/include/linux/compiler-gcc4.h
@@ -36,4 +36,18 @@
    the kernel context */
 #define __cold                  __attribute__((__cold__))
 
+
+#if __GNUC_MINOR__ >= 5
+/*
+ * Mark a position in code as unreachable.  This can be used to
+ * suppress control flow warnings after asm blocks that transfer
+ * control elsewhere.
+ *
+ * Early snapshots of gcc 4.5 don't support this and we can't detect
+ * this in the preprocessor, but we can live with this because they're
+ * unreleased.  Really, we need to have autoconf for the kernel.
+ */
+#define unreachable() __builtin_unreachable()
+#endif
+
 #endif
diff --git a/include/linux/compiler.h b/include/linux/compiler.h
index 04fb5135b4e1..59f208926d13 100644
--- a/include/linux/compiler.h
+++ b/include/linux/compiler.h
@@ -144,6 +144,11 @@ void ftrace_likely_update(struct ftrace_branch_data *f, int val, int expect);
 # define barrier() __memory_barrier()
 #endif
 
+/* Unreachable code */
+#ifndef unreachable
+# define unreachable() do { } while (1)
+#endif
+
 #ifndef RELOC_HIDE
 # define RELOC_HIDE(ptr, off)                                   \
   ({ unsigned long __ptr;                                       \