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

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Thu Apr 27 2017 - 08:43:33 EST


On Thu 2017-04-27 14:30:05, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> 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.

I'd prefer that ;-).
Pavel

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