Re: Portable assmbler code - newline

[Chen Gang <gang.chen@asianux.com>]

On 10/27/2013 03:28 PM, Vineet Gupta wrote:
> On 10/26/2013 07:08 PM, Chen Gang wrote:
>> On 10/25/2013 01:10 PM, Vineet Gupta wrote:
>>> Eh ! My untested patch was broken but not because of what you mentioned.
>>>
>>> For ARC, the ; negating the newline annotation. So the following works (backquote
>>> is new line for ARC)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/arch/arc/include/asm/linkage.h b/arch/arc/include/asm/linkage.h
>>> index 0283e9e44e0d..b3eea2999322 100644
>>> --- a/arch/arc/include/asm/linkage.h
>>> +++ b/arch/arc/include/asm/linkage.h
>>> @@ -9,6 +9,8 @@
>>>  #ifndef __ASM_LINKAGE_H
>>>  #define __ASM_LINKAGE_H
>>>
>>> +#define __ARCH_NL      `
>>> +
>>>  #ifdef __ASSEMBLY__
>>>
>>>
>>> diff --git a/include/linux/linkage.h b/include/linux/linkage.h
>>> index d3e8ad23a8e0..969e70ad231a 100644
>>> --- a/include/linux/linkage.h
>>> +++ b/include/linux/linkage.h
>>> @@ -6,6 +6,10 @@
>>>  #include <linux/export.h>
>>>  #include <asm/linkage.h>
>>>
>>> +#ifndef __ARCH_NL
>>> +#define __ARCH_NL      ;
>>> +#endif
>>> +
>>>  #ifdef __cplusplus
>>>  #define CPP_ASMLINKAGE extern "C"
>>>  #else
>>> @@ -75,7 +79,7 @@
>>>
>>>  #ifndef ENTRY
>>>  #define ENTRY(name) \
>>> -  .globl name; \
>>> +  .globl name __ARCH_NL \
>>>    ALIGN; \
>>
>> Do we also need consider about "ALIGN;"?
> 
> Right - as I said already, above was not a formal patch but a RFC whether we are
> on right track. The proper fix will have to audit all such places.
> 
> 
>>>    name:
>>>  #endif
>>>
>>
>> For next-20130927 tree, do we also need consider about WEAK, ENDPROC?
> 
> Indeed.
> 
> 
>> I am not quite sure about it, but I will try. 
> 
> So you volunteer to send out a patch base don __ARCH_NL I proposed above ?
> 
> 

OK, I will/should try.

Hmm... I am 'almost' a volunteer: my company support what I have done
for Public Open Source, they treat it as important thing.

Now you are mainly focusing on arc, and I want/try to focus on kernel
wide. This patch belongs to kernel wide, and at least now, nobody
rejects me for it, so I will/should try.


>> Now, I am just analyzing
>> another issue -- maybe the last issue for allmodconfig under arc, which
>> may be related with this patch, the errors are:
>>
>>       1   Building modules, stage 2.
>>       2   MODPOST 2994 modules
>>       3 ERROR: "__st_r13_to_r20" [sound/usb/snd-usbmidi-lib.ko] undefined!
> 
> Yes we know about this already. This is to do with libgcc linkage. The fix is non
> trivial - I'll get back to you on this. For now disable CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE.
> 

OK, thank you for your valuable information in time, at least, it saves
my time resources, after pass this issue, hope our arc can pass
allmodconfig.

:-)

> -Vineet
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Thanks.
-- 
Chen Gang

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Chen Gang