Re: [PATCH v2] scripts: headers_install.sh: Normalize __ASSEMBLER__ to __ASSEMBLY__

From: Nick Huang

Date: Sat Jul 04 2026 - 02:38:41 EST


Acked-by: Nick Huang sef1548@xxxxxxxxx

Thomas Weißschuh <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 於 2026年7月1日週三 上午5:15寫道:
>
> There is an ongoing effort to replace the usage of __ASSEMBLY__ with
> __ASSEMBLER__ throughout the kernel tree, see for example
> commit 287d163322b7 ("arm64: Replace __ASSEMBLY__ with __ASSEMBLER__ in
> non-uapi headers"). The latter is automatically provided by all compilers
> and preprocessors supported by the kernel, so the explicit definitions
> of __ASSEMBLY__ can be removed.
>
> However the UAPI headers might be used with non-GCC-compatible
> compilers, which do not define __ASSEMBLER__ automatically.
> So this migration may break users. Also during the migration phase, the
> UAPI headers will use a mix of *both* __ASSEMBLY__ and __ASSEMBLER__ at
> the same time, which is ugly and inconsistent.
>
> For now make sure that the exported UAPI headers consistently use
> __ASSEMBLY__ as before.
>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/164baf81-2824-4943-bbc1-4ae8a160c0cc@xxxxxxxx/
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Changes in v2:
> - Normalize *to* __ASSEMBLY__.
> - Link to v1: https://patch.msgid.link/20260309-uapi-assembly-v1-1-a7ebfbf14309@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> ---
> This should go either through kbuild or asm-generic, I think.
> ---
> scripts/headers_install.sh | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/scripts/headers_install.sh b/scripts/headers_install.sh
> index 9c15e748761c..83e447596878 100755
> --- a/scripts/headers_install.sh
> +++ b/scripts/headers_install.sh
> @@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ sed -E -e '
> s/(^|[^a-zA-Z0-9])__packed([^a-zA-Z0-9_]|$)/\1__attribute__((packed))\2/g
> s/(^|[[:space:](])(inline|asm|volatile)([[:space:](]|$)/\1__\2__\3/g
> s@#(ifndef|define|endif[[:space:]]*/[*])[[:space:]]*_UAPI@#\1 @
> + s/__ASSEMBLER__/__ASSEMBLY__/g
> ' $INFILE > $TMPFILE || exit 1
>
> scripts/unifdef -U__KERNEL__ -D__EXPORTED_HEADERS__ $TMPFILE > $OUTFILE
>
> ---
> base-commit: dc59e4fea9d83f03bad6bddf3fa2e52491777482
> change-id: 20260302-uapi-assembly-0bb7213b41f1
>
> Best regards,
> --
> Thomas Weißschuh <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>