Re: [PATCH v3 09/29] x86: assembly, use DATA_SIMPLE for data

From: Jiri Slaby
Date: Thu Apr 27 2017 - 08:30:30 EST


Hi,

On 04/27/2017, 01:53 PM, Pavel Machek wrote:
>> @@ -91,11 +91,11 @@ ENDPROC(do_suspend_lowlevel)
>>
>> .data
>> ALIGN
>> -ENTRY(saved_magic) .long 0
>> -ENTRY(saved_eip) .long 0
>> +SYM_DATA_SIMPLE(saved_magic, .long 0)
>> +SYM_DATA_SIMPLE_LOCAL(saved_eip, .long 0)
>>
>> # saved registers
>> -saved_idt: .long 0,0
>> -saved_ldt: .long 0
>> -saved_tss: .long 0
>> +SYM_DATA_SIMPLE_LOCAL(saved_idt, .long 0,0)
>> +SYM_DATA_SIMPLE_LOCAL(saved_ldt, .long 0)
>> +SYM_DATA_SIMPLE_LOCAL(saved_tss, .long 0)
>
> Do we really need to mark local data like that? It complicates the
> source code a bit...

Not really -- if the preferred way is not to annotate local symbols, I
can indeed remove that.

thanks,
--
js
suse labs

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