linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH last/many] x86: checking framework for correct use of ENTRY/PROC

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Message-ID: <aa79d98a0812170351rb64c595gc933456c661317c5@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 17 Dec 2008 14:51:53 +0300
From:	"Cyrill Gorcunov" <gorcunov@...il.com>
To:	"Alexander van Heukelum" <heukelum@...tmail.fm>
Cc:	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>
Subject: Re: [PATCH last/many] x86: checking framework for correct use of ENTRY/PROC

On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 12:17 PM, Alexander van Heukelum
<heukelum@...tmail.fm> wrote:
> [ DO NOT APPLY (yet...) At this point this patch will
> just cause the build to abort due to annotation errors
> found. ]
>
> Introduce a checking framework to check correct pairing
> of ENTRY/END and PROC/ENDPROC. It also checks that the
> annotations are not nested. I have used the ideas and
> most of the implementation from Cyrill Gorcunov who
> introduced the framework to check for mismatching
> KPROBE_ENTRY annotations, which was however soon made
> obsolete by the removal of KPROBE_ENTRY/KPROBE_END.
>
> Checks performed:
>  o  END must terminate an ENTRY annotation
>  o  ENDPROC must terminate a PROC annotation
>  o  ENTRY or PROC cannot be nested inside
>        another ENTRY or PROC section.
>
> Finally the macro ENTRY_PROC_FINAL is introduced to
> enable checking correct closing of PROC and ENTRY
> sections at the end of assembly files.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@...tmail.fm>
> Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>
...

Thanks Alexander!

You know I think you meant __ASSEMBLY__ while
were typing __ASSEMBLER__. Don't you? :)
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