Re: git pull request for tip/tracing/urgent

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Wed Feb 11 2009 - 04:17:06 EST


Hello,

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> This bit:
>
> ".section .fixup, \"ax\"\n"
> "4: movl $1, %[faulted]\n"
> " jmp 3b\n"
> ".previous\n"
>
> Can be thought of as an 'embedded' or 'nested' section - the '.previous'
> directive jumps back to whatever section we were in before. This can be
> nested multiple times too:
>
> .section A
> [...]
> .section B
> [...]
> .section C
> [...]
> .previous
> [...]
> .previous
> [...]
> .previous

That will result in...

A->B->C->B->C->B

.pushsection and .popsection should be used for nesting, right?

Thanks.

--
tejun
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/