Re: [PATCH v2] srcu: avoid escaped section names
From: Nick Desaulniers
Date: Wed Sep 30 2020 - 16:56:03 EST
On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 1:40 PM Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 12:25:49PM -0700, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> > The stringification operator, `#`, in the preprocessor escapes strings.
> > For example, `# "foo"` becomes `"\"foo\""`. GCC and Clang differ in how
> > they treat section names that contain \".
> >
> > The portable solution is to not use a string literal with the
> > preprocessor stringification operator.
> >
> > Link: https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42950
> > Fixes: commit fe15b50cdeee ("srcu: Allocate per-CPU data for DEFINE_SRCU() in modules")
> > Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> I am guessing that this needs to go up with other patches. If so:
>
> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> If not, let me know and I will queue it.
I could have bundled them up as a series. I think you can pick it up,
and I'll owe you a beer?
>
> Thanx, Paul
>
> > ---
> > Changes V1->V2:
> > * drop unrelated Kconfig changes accidentally committed in v1.
> >
> > include/linux/srcutree.h | 2 +-
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/include/linux/srcutree.h b/include/linux/srcutree.h
> > index 9cfcc8a756ae..9de652f4e1bd 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/srcutree.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/srcutree.h
> > @@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ struct srcu_struct {
> > # define __DEFINE_SRCU(name, is_static) \
> > is_static struct srcu_struct name; \
> > struct srcu_struct * const __srcu_struct_##name \
> > - __section("___srcu_struct_ptrs") = &name
> > + __section(___srcu_struct_ptrs) = &name
> > #else
> > # define __DEFINE_SRCU(name, is_static) \
> > static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct srcu_data, name##_srcu_data); \
> > --
> > 2.28.0.709.gb0816b6eb0-goog
> >
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Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers