Re: [PATCH] x86_64: Work around old gas bug

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>]

* Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com> wrote:

> >>> On 26.09.12 at 10:28, Tao Guo <glorioustao@gmail.com> wrote:
> > gas in binutils(2.16.91) could not parse parentheses within macro
> > parameters unless fully parenthesized, and this is a workaround to
> > make old gas work without generating below errors:
> > arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S: Assembler messages:
> > arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S:387: Error: too many positional arguments
> > arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S:389: Error: too many positional arguments
> > arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S:390: Error: too many positional arguments
> > arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S:391: Error: too many positional arguments
> > arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S:392: Error: too many positional arguments
> > arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S:393: Error: too many positional arguments
> > arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S:394: Error: too many positional arguments
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Tao Guo <glorioustao@gmail.com>
> 
> This looks okay now to me, but I'm somewhat reluctant to 
> formally ack it given that we know how broken those particular 
> gas versions are.

Well, assuming Tao Guo test-booted a kernel build with this old 
GAS version, we could apply this patch on a best-effort basis - 
the changes don't look particularly ugly. If other, unacceptable 
uglies or fragilities come up then we might balk.

Agreed?

Thanks,

	Ingo