Re: [PATCH] x86: BUILD_IRQ say .text to avoid .data.percpu

[Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>]

Hugh Dickins wrote:
> When I edit the x86_64 Makefile to -fno-unit-at-a-time, bootup panics
> on 0xCCs in IRQ0x3e_interrupt(): IRQ0x20_interrupt etc. have got linked
> into .data.percpu.  Perhaps there are other ways of triggering that:
> specify ".text" in the BUILD_IRQ() macro for safety.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
> ---
> I've been using -fno-unit-at-a-time (to lessen inlining, for easier
> debugging) for a long time, but never saw this until Mike's percpu mods
> came in: I mention this so you're on the lookout, just in case other
> things are more likely to go into the wrong section now.  (I did give
> Mike a private headsup on this a couple of weeks ago, in case it helped
> with problems he was having with percpu, but in fact it didn't help.)
> 
>  arch/x86/kernel/irqinit_64.c |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> --- 2.6.26-git/arch/x86/kernel/irqinit_64.c	2008-07-18 11:33:31.000000000 +0100
> +++ linux/arch/x86/kernel/irqinit_64.c	2008-07-18 16:07:00.000000000 +0100
> @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
>  
>  #define BUILD_IRQ(nr)				\
>  	asmlinkage void IRQ_NAME(nr);		\
> -	asm("\n.p2align\n"			\
> +	asm("\n.text\n.p2align\n"		\
>  	    "IRQ" #nr "_interrupt:\n\t"		\
>  	    "push $~(" #nr ") ; "		\
>  	    "jmp common_interrupt");


Thanks Hugh.  Btw, which GCC are you using?

-Mike