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Date:	Tue, 03 Jan 2012 17:13:38 +0100
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Jan Beulich <JBeulich@...e.com>
Cc:	mingo@...e.hu, tglx@...utronix.de,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, hpa@...or.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: fix and improve cmpxchg_double{,_local}()

Le mardi 03 janvier 2012 à 16:08 +0000, Jan Beulich a écrit :

> "1" and "672" are both local labels, so both are okay. As long as there's
> no other (colliding) use of 672 anywhere, that would seem to be the
> preferred fix (feel free to put my ack on the patch when you formally
> submit it).

I was referring the use of a label local to the macro itself, with
restricted scope.

following psudi code would trigger an asm error :

	.macro FOO
	.local_label 1
1:	lock
        .section .smp_locks,"a"
        .balign 4
        .long 1b - .
        .previous
	.endm


	FOO
	jne 1b



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