Re: [RFC -tip] x86: introduce X86_ assembly names macros to catchunbalanced declaration

[Cyrill Gorcunov]

[Ingo Molnar - Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 05:22:57PM +0100]
| 
| * Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
| 
| > It's usefull to catch unbalanced or messed declarations of ENTRY and
| > KPROBES. These macros would help a bit (at least I hope so).
| > 
| > For example the following code would compile without problems
| > 
| > 	X86_ENTRY(mcount)
| > 		retq
| > 	X86_END(mcount)
| > 
| > But if you forget and mess the following form
| > 
| > 	X86_ENTRY(mcount)
| > 		retq
| > 	END(mcount)
| > 
| > 	X86_ENTRY(ftrace_caller)
| > 
| > The assembler will issue the following message:
| > Error: X86_ENTRY/KPROBE unbalanced or missed
| 
| looks good - a very small detail: i'd suggest ENTRY_X86()/END_X86() - 
| because whoever is reading this portion of the code is amply aware of 
| the fact that this is the x86 tree - so the more important information 
| should come first.
| 
| 	Ingo
| 

Will fix shortly :)

		- Cyrill -
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