Re: [PATCH] compiler.h: avoid escaped section names

[Joe Perches]

On Wed, 2020-09-30 at 08:40 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Tue, 2020-09-29 at 13:25 -0700, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> > And I don't remember what ever happened to Joe's script for treewide
> > conversion of __section.
> 
> Nor do I but here (attached) is the script.
> 
> My recollection is there was some problem with mscros
> with ## concatenation in some converted uses.

I believe I have it sorted now and I've attached
a new version of the script.

It runs against -next (or any other tree) and
produces a single commit.

It converts all the various uses of
	__attribute__((section(<foo>)))
to
	__section("<foo>")

changes the various macros with token pasting uses
I believe appropriately as well.

Please give it a spin.

There were 4 problems as below.

With these 4 items fixed, the build works (seems to at least)

1:  compiler_attributes.h needed to unquote the __section__(#S)
    the old automated patch didn't apply as the file had changed

diff --git a/include/linux/compiler_attributes.h b/include/linux/compiler_attri>
index ea7b756b1c8f..b6fef9033c0b 100644
--- a/include/linux/compiler_attributes.h
+++ b/include/linux/compiler_attributes.h
@@ -254,7 +254,7 @@
  *   gcc: https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Common-Variable-Attributes.html#i>
  * clang: https://clang.llvm.org/docs/AttributeReference.html#section-declspec>
  */
-#define __section(S)                    __attribute__((__section__(#S)))
+#define __section(section)              __attribute__((__section__(section)))

2:  The script needed to use different token pasting for
    __section(foo##bar##baz)

    The script converted this to
	__section("foo" ## bar ## "baz")
    instead this needed to be
	__section("foo" #bar "baz")

3:  scripts/mod/modpost.c needed quoting of its internal __section uses:

diff --git a/scripts/mod/modpost.c b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
index 69341b36f271..f882ce0d9327 100644
--- a/scripts/mod/modpost.c
+++ b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
@@ -2254,7 +2254,7 @@ static void add_header(struct buffer *b, struct module *mod)
        buf_printf(b, "MODULE_INFO(name, KBUILD_MODNAME);\n");
        buf_printf(b, "\n");
        buf_printf(b, "__visible struct module __this_module\n");
-       buf_printf(b, "__section(.gnu.linkonce.this_module) = {\n");
+       buf_printf(b, "__section(\".gnu.linkonce.this_module\") = {\n");
        buf_printf(b, "\t.name = KBUILD_MODNAME,\n");
        if (mod->has_init)
                buf_printf(b, "\t.init = init_module,\n");
@@ -2308,7 +2308,7 @@ static int add_versions(struct buffer *b, struct module *mod)
 
        buf_printf(b, "\n");
        buf_printf(b, "static const struct modversion_info ____versions[]\n");
-       buf_printf(b, "__used __section(__versions) = {\n");
+       buf_printf(b, "__used __section(\"__versions\") = {\n");

4: tools/ was excluded, but now needs conversion

 tools/include/linux/objtool.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/include/linux/objtool.h b/tools/include/linux/objtool.h
index ab82c793c897..577f51436cf9 100644
--- a/tools/include/linux/objtool.h
+++ b/tools/include/linux/objtool.h
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ struct unwind_hint {
  * For more information, see tools/objtool/Documentation/stack-validation.txt.
  */
 #define STACK_FRAME_NON_STANDARD(func) \
-	static void __used __section(.discard.func_stack_frame_non_standard) \
+	static void __used __section(".discard.func_stack_frame_non_standard") \
 		*__func_stack_frame_non_standard_##func = func
 
 #else /* __ASSEMBLY__ */

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