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

[Will Deacon]

On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 02:36:06PM +0200, Miguel Ojeda wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 10:27 AM Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 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.

Okey doke, I'll pick this one up for 5.4 then. Thanks for the explanation!

Will