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From: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
To: 'Vasily Gorbik' <gor@linux.ibm.com>,
	Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>, Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>,
	Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH 1/2] compiler.h: Avoid using inline asm operand modifiers
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2021 10:39:35 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <88372012a2374a8fa6e34a709e03b767@AcuMS.aculab.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <your-ad-here.call-01636386038-ext-6578@work.hours>

From: Vasily Gorbik
> Sent: 08 November 2021 15:41
> 
> On Fri, Nov 05, 2021 at 09:54:18AM -0700, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> > On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 03:03:08PM +0200, Vasily Gorbik wrote:
> > > The expansion of annotate_reachable/annotate_unreachable on s390 will
> > > result in a compiler error if the __COUNTER__ value is high enough.
...
> > I wonder if we could go back to the original approach of providing
> > __COUNTER__ as an input to the asm, but then mask it to < 128.
...
> >   * The __COUNTER__ based labels are a hack to make each instance of the macros
> >   * unique, to convince GCC not to merge duplicate inline asm statements.

I've used asm comments get the same effect.
Annoyingly there isn't a standard comment delimiter.

I think you can just use a .equ (or .set) directive (to assign a value)
rather than putting a value into a 'to be discarded' section.

	David

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-11-10 10:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-19 13:03 [PATCH 0/2] objtool annotations: " Vasily Gorbik
2021-05-19 13:03 ` [PATCH 1/2] compiler.h: " Vasily Gorbik
2021-11-05 16:54   ` Josh Poimboeuf
2021-11-08 15:40     ` Vasily Gorbik
2021-11-08 16:50       ` Josh Poimboeuf
2021-11-10 10:39       ` David Laight [this message]
2021-05-19 13:03 ` [PATCH 2/2] instrumentation.h: " Vasily Gorbik
2021-05-19 20:52 ` [PATCH 0/2] objtool annotations: " Josh Poimboeuf

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