From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@fastmail.fm>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC 0/6] x86 tip asm ENTRY,ENDPROC cleanup
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2009 12:02:29 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49972355.3000707@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1234611775.19975.1300340003@webmail.messagingengine.com>
Alexander van Heukelum wrote:
>
> Hi Peter,
>
> I see. But that would be new behaviour. I would propose to use
> completely separate macro's to handle frame-setup code generation,
> and keep ENTRY/GLOBAL/END/ENDPROC only for setting metadata and
> alignment. I think it's worth it to spell out code-generating
> macro's explicitly: there are not that many asm functions, and
> quite a few of them would need special handling. I think noone
> wants to see an ENDPROC_NOFRAMETEARDOWN ;).
>
> The common-case example would look like this.
>
> GLOBAL(c_callable_function)
> ENTER
> [asm-code]
> LEAVE
> ret
> ENDPROC(c_callable_function)
>
I guess I'm a bit concerned about people omitting them, but it's equally
concerning that people use the wrong macros, so yes, it's probably the
better thing in the long run.
-hpa
--
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-14 20:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-13 21:50 [RFC 0/6] x86 tip asm ENTRY,ENDPROC cleanup Cyrill Gorcunov
2009-02-13 21:50 ` [RFC 1/6] x86: asm linkage - introduce GLOBAL macro Cyrill Gorcunov
2009-02-13 21:50 ` [RFC 2/6] x86: linkage - get rid of _X86 macros Cyrill Gorcunov
2009-02-13 21:50 ` [RFC 3/6] x86: copy.S - use GLOBAL,ENDPROC macros Cyrill Gorcunov
2009-02-13 21:50 ` [RFC 4/6] x86: pmjump " Cyrill Gorcunov
2009-02-13 21:50 ` [RFC 5/6] x86: compressed head_64 - use ENTRY,ENDPROC macros Cyrill Gorcunov
2009-02-13 21:50 ` [RFC 6/6] x86: compressed head_32 " Cyrill Gorcunov
2009-02-13 23:23 ` [RFC 0/6] x86 tip asm ENTRY,ENDPROC cleanup Alexander van Heukelum
2009-02-14 0:34 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-02-14 8:21 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2009-02-14 11:42 ` Alexander van Heukelum
2009-02-14 20:02 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2009-02-19 16:13 ` Ingo Molnar
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