Re: [GIT PULL] compiler-attributes for v5.3-rc8

From: Nick Desaulniers
Date: Fri Sep 06 2019 - 20:07:11 EST


On Fri, Sep 6, 2019 at 4:11 PM Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Sep 6, 2019 at 3:47 PM Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Sedat reported (https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/619#issuecomment-520042577,
> > https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/619#issuecomment-520065525)
> > that only the bottom two hunks of that patch
> > (https://github.com/ojeda/linux/commit/c97e82b97f4bba00304905fe7965f923abd2d755)
>
> [ missing "matters" or something here? ]

(Yes; I must have pasted the link over it, or I'm having an episode)

>
> If fixing two of the __section() uses in that tracing header file is
> needed, then just fix all four there. I'm ok with that.

So then Miguel should maybe split off a new branch, rebase to keep
just the relevant patch
(https://github.com/ojeda/linux/commit/c97e82b97f4bba00304905fe7965f923abd2d755),
and send a PR to you for inclusion in 5.3?
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Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers