[PATCH v3 03/14] parisc: prefer __section from compiler_attributes.h

From: Nick Desaulniers
Date: Wed Aug 28 2019 - 18:56:55 EST


GCC unescapes escaped string section names while Clang does not. Because
__section uses the `#` stringification operator for the section name, it
doesn't need to be escaped.

Instead, we should:
1. Prefer __section(.section_name_no_quotes).
2. Only use __attribute__((__section__(".section"))) when creating the
section name via C preprocessor (see the definition of __define_initcall
in arch/um/include/shared/init.h).

This antipattern was found with:
$ grep -e __section\(\" -e __section__\(\" -r

See the discussions in:
Link: https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42950
Link: https://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=156412960619946&w=2
Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/619
Reported-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@xxxxxxxxx>
Suggested-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/parisc/include/asm/cache.h | 2 +-
arch/parisc/include/asm/ldcw.h | 2 +-
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/parisc/include/asm/cache.h b/arch/parisc/include/asm/cache.h
index 73ca89a47f49..e5de3f897633 100644
--- a/arch/parisc/include/asm/cache.h
+++ b/arch/parisc/include/asm/cache.h
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@

#define ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN L1_CACHE_BYTES

-#define __read_mostly __attribute__((__section__(".data..read_mostly")))
+#define __read_mostly __section(.data..read_mostly)

void parisc_cache_init(void); /* initializes cache-flushing */
void disable_sr_hashing_asm(int); /* low level support for above */
diff --git a/arch/parisc/include/asm/ldcw.h b/arch/parisc/include/asm/ldcw.h
index 3eb4bfc1fb36..e080143e79a3 100644
--- a/arch/parisc/include/asm/ldcw.h
+++ b/arch/parisc/include/asm/ldcw.h
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@
})

#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
-# define __lock_aligned __attribute__((__section__(".data..lock_aligned")))
+# define __lock_aligned __section(.data..lock_aligned)
#endif

#endif /* __PARISC_LDCW_H */
--
2.23.0.187.g17f5b7556c-goog