Re: [PATCH] treewide: Convert macro and uses of __section(foo) to __section("foo")

[Nathan Chancellor]

On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 12:36:52PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 07:36:07PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > Use a more generic form for __section that requires quotes to avoid
> > complications with clang and gcc differences.
> > 
> > Remove the quote operator # from compiler_attributes.h __section macro.
> > 
> > Convert all unquoted __section(foo) uses to quoted __section("foo").
> > Also convert __attribute__((section("foo"))) uses to __section("foo")
> > even if the __attribute__ has multiple list entry forms.
> > 
> > Conversion done using a script:
> > 
> > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/75393e5ddc272dc7403de74d645e6c6e0f4e70eb.camel@xxxxxxxxxxx/2-convert_section.pl
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Reviewed-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> s390 (all builds):
> 
> Error log:
> error: section .boot.preserved.data differs between vmlinux and arch/s390/boot/compressed/vmlinux
> make[2]: *** [arch/s390/boot/section_cmp.boot.preserved.data] Error 1
> make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> error: section .boot.data differs between vmlinux and arch/s390/boot/compressed/vmlinux
> make[2]: *** [arch/s390/boot/section_cmp.boot.data] Error 1
> make[1]: *** [bzImage] Error 2
> make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> make: *** [__sub-make] Error 2
> 
> Reverting this patch fixes the problem.
> 
> Guenter
> 

Seems like this should be fixed by commit 8e90b4b1305a ("s390: correct
__bootdata / __bootdata_preserved macros").

Cheers,
Nathan