Re: [PATCH v2 00/14] treewide: prefer __section from compiler_attributes.h

[Nick Desaulniers]

On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 7:47 PM Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2019-08-27 at 13:39 -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 fixes an Oops observed in distro's that use systemd and not
> > net.core.bpf_jit_enable=1, when their kernels are compiled with Clang.
> >
> > Instead, we should:
> > 1. Prefer __section(.section_name_no_quotes).
> > 2. Only use __attribute__((__section(".section"))) when creating the
>
> Please use __ before and after section
>
> i.e. __attribute__((__section__("<section_name>")))
>
>

*explitive*!!!
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Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers