Re: [PATCH 12/16] arm64: prefer __section from compiler_attributes.h

[Miguel Ojeda]

On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 10:27 AM Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Nick,
>
> On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 02:50:45PM -0700, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> > This antipattern was found with:
> > $ grep -e __section\(\" -e __section__\(\" -r
> >
> > Reported-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Suggested-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  arch/arm64/include/asm/cache.h     | 2 +-
> >  arch/arm64/kernel/smp_spin_table.c | 2 +-
> >  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> Does this fix a build issue, or is it just cosmetic or do we end up with
> duplicate sections or something else?

This should be cosmetic -- basically we are trying to move all users
of current available __attribute__s in compiler_attributes.h to the
__attr forms. I am also adding (slowly) new attributes that are
already used but we don't have them yet in __attr form.

> Happy to route it via arm64, just having trouble working out whether it's
> 5.3 material!

As you prefer! Those that are not taken by a maintainer I will pick up
and send via compiler-attributes.

I would go for 5.4, since there is no particular rush anyway.

Cheers,
Miguel