Re: [PATCH] kbuild, x86: revert macros in extended asm workarounds

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 06:17:41PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> Revert the following commits:
> 
> - 5bdcd510c2ac9efaf55c4cbd8d46421d8e2320cd
>   ("x86/jump-labels: Macrofy inline assembly code to work around GCC inlining bugs")
> 
> - d5a581d84ae6b8a4a740464b80d8d9cf1e7947b2
>   ("x86/cpufeature: Macrofy inline assembly code to work around GCC inlining bugs")
> 
> - 0474d5d9d2f7f3b11262f7bf87d0e7314ead9200.
>   ("x86/extable: Macrofy inline assembly code to work around GCC inlining bugs")
> 
> - 494b5168f2de009eb80f198f668da374295098dd.
>   ("x86/paravirt: Work around GCC inlining bugs when compiling paravirt ops")
> 
> - f81f8ad56fd1c7b99b2ed1c314527f7d9ac447c6.
>   ("x86/bug: Macrofy the BUG table section handling, to work around GCC inlining bugs")
> 
> - 77f48ec28e4ccff94d2e5f4260a83ac27a7f3099.
>   ("x86/alternatives: Macrofy lock prefixes to work around GCC inlining bugs")
> 
> - 9e1725b410594911cc5981b6c7b4cea4ec054ca8.
>   ("x86/refcount: Work around GCC inlining bug")
>   (Conflicts: arch/x86/include/asm/refcount.h)
> 
> - c06c4d8090513f2974dfdbed2ac98634357ac475.
>   ("x86/objtool: Use asm macros to work around GCC inlining bugs")
> 
> - 77b0bf55bc675233d22cd5df97605d516d64525e.
>   ("kbuild/Makefile: Prepare for using macros in inline assembly code to work around asm() related GCC inlining bugs")
> 

I don't think we want to blindly revert all that. Some of them actually
made sense and did clean up things irrespective of the asm-inline issue.

In particular I like the jump-label one. The cpufeature one OTOh, yeah,
I'd love to get that reverted.

And as a note; the normal commit quoting style is:

  d5a581d84ae6 ("x86/cpufeature: Macrofy inline assembly code to work around GCC inlining bugs")