Re: [PATCH] x86, AMD: Correct F15h IC aliasing issue

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Thu Jul 28 2011 - 10:19:41 EST


On 07/28/2011 07:13 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
>
> You want them to be _GENMASK{,_UL,_ULL}? Why? Because they're "calling"
> macros with a single underscore? Actually, I've always wondered on what
> our exact rules on underscores are. I can deduce the nesting level of
> macros based on number of underscores but what else?
>

Internal symbols used in userspace-visible headers must be from the
namespace:

^_[A-Z_].*

-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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