Re: [patch V2 09/16] x86/ioperm: Move TSS bitmap update to exit to user work

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 09:46:30AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> I think it's just that the pattern to find "start of new function" is
> confused by the "__visible" or something.
> 
> Don't rely too much on the function names in the diff headers. They
> can be confused by labels, or just by other things. I think it ends up
> being "does the line start with alphabetic character" that is the
> heuristic for "this is a function header".

Right, so I have this in my .gitconfig:

[diff "default"]
	xfuncname = "^[[:alpha:]$_].*[^:]$"

Which works nice for C in that it will no longer accept labels as
funcname, but it stinks for ASM :-)