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

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Message-ID: <20081217120450.GA8600@mailshack.com>
Date:	Wed, 17 Dec 2008 13:04:50 +0100
From:	Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@...lshack.com>
To:	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>
Cc:	Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@...tmail.fm>,
	linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, 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 02:51:53PM +0300, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> 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? :)

If it matters there is some cleanup to do in the kernel tree ;).

Greetings,
    Alexander
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