linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 09/29] x86: assembly, use DATA

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Message-ID: <20170427115358.GB23352@amd>
Date:   Thu, 27 Apr 2017 13:53:58 +0200
From:   Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:     Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
Cc:     mingo@...hat.com, tglx@...utronix.de, hpa@...or.com,
        x86@...nel.org, jpoimboe@...hat.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
        Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>, linux-pm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 09/29] x86: assembly, use DATA_SIMPLE for data

Hi!

> @@ -91,11 +91,11 @@ ENDPROC(do_suspend_lowlevel)
>  
>  .data
>  ALIGN
> -ENTRY(saved_magic)	.long	0
> -ENTRY(saved_eip)	.long	0
> +SYM_DATA_SIMPLE(saved_magic, .long 0)
> +SYM_DATA_SIMPLE_LOCAL(saved_eip, .long 0)
>  
>  # saved registers
> -saved_idt:	.long	0,0
> -saved_ldt:	.long	0
> -saved_tss:	.long	0
> +SYM_DATA_SIMPLE_LOCAL(saved_idt, .long 0,0)
> +SYM_DATA_SIMPLE_LOCAL(saved_ldt, .long 0)
> +SYM_DATA_SIMPLE_LOCAL(saved_tss, .long 0)

Do we really need to mark local data like that? It complicates the
source code a bit...
								Pavel
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