Re: [RFC 4/6] arm64: assembler: Add macro to annotate asm function having non standard stack-frame.

From: Julien Thierry
Date: Wed Apr 24 2019 - 06:44:33 EST


Hi RaphaÃl,

On 09/04/2019 14:52, Raphael Gault wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Raphael Gault <raphael.gault@xxxxxxx>

Even there is not much to say, we include a commit message to explain
what the patch does and/or why we want it.

> ---
> arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h
> index 4feb6119c3c9..636a07a7eb76 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h
> @@ -748,4 +748,22 @@ USER(\label, ic ivau, \tmp2) // invalidate I line PoU
> .Lyield_out_\@ :
> .endm
>
> +
> +#ifdef CONFIG_STACK_VALIDATION
> + /*
> + * This macro is the arm64 assembler equivalent of the
> + * macro STACK_FRAME_NON_STANDARD define at
> + * ~/include/linux/frame.h
> + */
> + .macro asm_stack_frame_non_standard func
> + .pushsection ".discard.func_stack_frame_non_standard"
> + .8byte \func
> + .popsection
> + .endm
> +#else
> + .macro asm_stack_frame_non_standard func
> + .endm
> +#endif
> +
> +

This can be simplified as:

.macro asm_stack_frame_non_standard func
#ifdef CONFIG_STACK_VALIDATION
[...]
#endif
.endm

> #endif /* __ASM_ASSEMBLER_H */
>

Cheers,

--
Julien Thierry