Re: [PATCH 15/16] include/linux/compiler.h: remove unused KENTRY macro

[Sedat Dilek]

On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 11:53 PM Nick Desaulniers
<ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> This macro is not used throughout the kernel. Delete it rather than
> update the __section to be a fully spelled out
> __attribute__((__section__())) to avoid
> https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42950.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx>

Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@xxxxxxxxx> [ Linux v5.3-rc5 ]

Patchset "for-5.3/x86-section-name-escaping" (5 patches):

compiler_attributes.h: add note about __section
include/linux/compiler.h: remove unused KENTRY macro
include/linux: prefer __section from compiler_attributes.h
include/asm-generic: prefer __section from compiler_attributes.h
x86: prefer __section from compiler_attributes.h

Thanks.

- Sedat -

> ---
>  include/linux/compiler.h | 23 -----------------------
>  1 file changed, 23 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/compiler.h b/include/linux/compiler.h
> index 5e88e7e33abe..f01c1e527f85 100644
> --- a/include/linux/compiler.h
> +++ b/include/linux/compiler.h
> @@ -136,29 +136,6 @@ void ftrace_likely_update(struct ftrace_likely_data *f, int val,
>  } while (0)
>  #endif
>
> -/*
> - * KENTRY - kernel entry point
> - * This can be used to annotate symbols (functions or data) that are used
> - * without their linker symbol being referenced explicitly. For example,
> - * interrupt vector handlers, or functions in the kernel image that are found
> - * programatically.
> - *
> - * Not required for symbols exported with EXPORT_SYMBOL, or initcalls. Those
> - * are handled in their own way (with KEEP() in linker scripts).
> - *
> - * KENTRY can be avoided if the symbols in question are marked as KEEP() in the
> - * linker script. For example an architecture could KEEP() its entire
> - * boot/exception vector code rather than annotate each function and data.
> - */
> -#ifndef KENTRY
> -# define KENTRY(sym)                                           \
> -       extern typeof(sym) sym;                                 \
> -       static const unsigned long __kentry_##sym               \
> -       __used                                                  \
> -       __section("___kentry" "+" #sym )                        \
> -       = (unsigned long)&sym;
> -#endif
> -
>  #ifndef RELOC_HIDE
>  # define RELOC_HIDE(ptr, off)                                  \
>    ({ unsigned long __ptr;                                      \
> --
> 2.23.0.rc1.153.gdeed80330f-goog
>