[PATCH 52/74] x86, lto, paravirt: Don't rely on local assembler labels

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Sat Aug 18 2012 - 23:08:38 EST


From: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

The paravirt patching code assumes that it can reference a
local assembler label between two different top level assembler
statements. This does not work with some experimental gcc builds,
where the assembler code may end up in different assembler files.

Replace it with extern / global /asm linkage labels.

This also removes one redundant copy of the macro.

Cc: jeremy@xxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt_types.h | 9 +++++----
arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c | 5 -----
2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt_types.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt_types.h
index 4f262bc..6a464ba 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt_types.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt_types.h
@@ -385,10 +385,11 @@ extern struct pv_lock_ops pv_lock_ops;
_paravirt_alt(insn_string, "%c[paravirt_typenum]", "%c[paravirt_clobber]")

/* Simple instruction patching code. */
-#define DEF_NATIVE(ops, name, code) \
- extern const char start_##ops##_##name[] __visible, \
- end_##ops##_##name[] __visible; \
- asm("start_" #ops "_" #name ": " code "; end_" #ops "_" #name ":")
+#define NATIVE_LABEL(a,x,b) "\n\t.globl " a #x "_" #b "\n" a #x "_" #b ":\n\t"
+
+#define DEF_NATIVE(ops, name, code) \
+ __visible extern const char start_##ops##_##name[], end_##ops##_##name[]; \
+ asm(NATIVE_LABEL("start_", ops, name) code NATIVE_LABEL("end_", ops, name))

unsigned paravirt_patch_nop(void);
unsigned paravirt_patch_ident_32(void *insnbuf, unsigned len);
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c b/arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c
index 17fff18..947255e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c
@@ -62,11 +62,6 @@ void __init default_banner(void)
pv_info.name);
}

-/* Simple instruction patching code. */
-#define DEF_NATIVE(ops, name, code) \
- extern const char start_##ops##_##name[], end_##ops##_##name[]; \
- asm("start_" #ops "_" #name ": " code "; end_" #ops "_" #name ":")
-
/* Undefined instruction for dealing with missing ops pointers. */
static const unsigned char ud2a[] = { 0x0f, 0x0b };

--
1.7.7.6

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