Re: [GIT PULL] x86 LTO changes for v3.15

[Andi Kleen]

>  - don't do the __visible as part of asmlinkage, because it really is
> conceptually wrong

Ok.

> 
>  - add the visible to the SYSCALL_DEFINEx() macros

I think SYSCALL_DEFINE actually doesn't need it, as the syscall
tables are visible in C. Only the syscall table itself
needs to be visible.


> and after that I strongly suspect that there will be only a handful of
> cases left that are called from assembly language and that aren't
> system calls. Things like "printk()" and friends that are really
> special. They'd need a few manual "__visible" annotations.

Ok. I think it's more than a handful though.

I'll cook up a patch.

> See above: I can pretty much guarantee that you should *not* need do
> any crazy automated sweeps.  Because you shouldn't need "__visible" at
> the declarations in the header files, only at the definition of the
> function, right? 

Yes that's right.

-Andi
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