linux-kernel - Re: PROC macro to annotate functions in assembly files

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Message-ID: <1636.1229511233@redhat.com>
Date:	Wed, 17 Dec 2008 10:53:53 +0000
From:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:	Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@...tmail.fm>
Cc:	dhowells@...hat.com, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
	Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@...lshack.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>
Subject: Re: PROC macro to annotate functions in assembly files

Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@...tmail.fm> wrote:

> The goal is to annotate functions, at least those called
> from C code, with PROC at the beginning and ENDPROC at the
> end. This is for the benefit of debugging and tracing.

What about asm functions that have multiple entry points?

Take arch/mn10300/mm/cache-flush-mn10300.S for example.  Several functions in
there share bodies by virtue of falling through one to another.

David
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