GCC unescapes escaped string section names while Clang does not. Because
__section uses the `#` stringification operator for the section name, it
doesn't need to be escaped.
This antipattern was found with:
$ grep -e __section\(\" -e __section__\(\" -r
Reported-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.di...@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoim...@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulni...@google.com>
---
arch/arm64/include/asm/cache.h | 2 +-
arch/arm64/kernel/smp_spin_table.c | 2 +-
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/cache.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/cache.h
index 64eeaa41e7ca..43da6dd29592 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/cache.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/cache.h
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ static inline u32 cache_type_cwg(void)
return (read_cpuid_cachetype() >> CTR_CWG_SHIFT) & CTR_CWG_MASK;
}
-#define __read_mostly __attribute__((__section__(".data..read_mostly")))
+#define __read_mostly __section(.data..read_mostly)
static inline int cache_line_size_of_cpu(void)
{
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/smp_spin_table.c
b/arch/arm64/kernel/smp_spin_table.c
index 76c2739ba8a4..c8a3fee00c11 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/smp_spin_table.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/smp_spin_table.c
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
#include <asm/smp_plat.h>
extern void secondary_holding_pen(void);
-volatile unsigned long __section(".mmuoff.data.read")
+volatile unsigned long __section(.mmuoff.data.read)
secondary_holding_pen_release = INVALID_HWID;
static phys_addr_t cpu_release_addr[NR_CPUS];
--
2.23.0.rc1.153.gdeed80330f-goog
