On 08/18/2012 07:56 PM, Andi Kleen wrote:
> From: Andi Kleen <a...@linux.intel.com>
>
> The paravirt patching code assumes that it can reference a
> local assembler label between two different top level assembler
> statements. This does not work with some experimental gcc builds,
> where the assembler code may end up in different assembler files.
Egad, what are those zany gcc chaps up to now?
J
>
> Replace it with extern / global /asm linkage labels.
>
> This also removes one redundant copy of the macro.
>
> Cc: jer...@goop.org
> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <a...@linux.intel.com>
> ---
> arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt_types.h | 9 +++++----
> arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c | 5 -----
> 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt_types.h
> b/arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt_types.h
> index 4f262bc..6a464ba 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt_types.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt_types.h
> @@ -385,10 +385,11 @@ extern struct pv_lock_ops pv_lock_ops;
> _paravirt_alt(insn_string, "%c[paravirt_typenum]",
> "%c[paravirt_clobber]")
>
> /* Simple instruction patching code. */
> -#define DEF_NATIVE(ops, name, code) \
> - extern const char start_##ops##_##name[] __visible, \
> - end_##ops##_##name[] __visible; \
> - asm("start_" #ops "_" #name ": " code "; end_" #ops "_" #name ":")
> +#define NATIVE_LABEL(a,x,b) "\n\t.globl " a #x "_" #b "\n" a #x "_" #b
> ":\n\t"
> +
> +#define DEF_NATIVE(ops, name, code) \
> + __visible extern const char start_##ops##_##name[],
> end_##ops##_##name[]; \
> + asm(NATIVE_LABEL("start_", ops, name) code NATIVE_LABEL("end_", ops,
> name))
>
> unsigned paravirt_patch_nop(void);
> unsigned paravirt_patch_ident_32(void *insnbuf, unsigned len);
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c b/arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c
> index 17fff18..947255e 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c
> @@ -62,11 +62,6 @@ void __init default_banner(void)
> pv_info.name);
> }
>
> -/* Simple instruction patching code. */
> -#define DEF_NATIVE(ops, name, code) \
> - extern const char start_##ops##_##name[], end_##ops##_##name[]; \
> - asm("start_" #ops "_" #name ": " code "; end_" #ops "_" #name ":")
> -
> /* Undefined instruction for dealing with missing ops pointers. */
> static const unsigned char ud2a[] = { 0x0f, 0x0b };
>
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