linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 21/27] x86_64: assembly, add ENDs to some functions and relabel with SYM_CODE

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Message-ID: <0c3cfe7b-d6d3-cdc6-9c80-65c6d4c200d6@oracle.com>
Date:   Mon, 2 Oct 2017 12:59:28 -0400
From:   Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>
To:     Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>, mingo@...hat.com
Cc:     tglx@...utronix.de, hpa@...or.com, x86@...nel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>,
        xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 21/27] x86_64: assembly, add ENDs to some functions and
 relabel with SYM_CODE_*

On 10/02/2017 05:12 AM, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> All these are functions which are invoked from elsewhere, but they are
> not typical C functions. So we annotate them (as global) using the new
> SYM_CODE_START. All these were not balanced with any END, so mark their
> ends by SYM_CODE_END, appropriatelly.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
> Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>
> Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>
> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
> Cc: x86@...nel.org
> Cc: xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org

For Xen bits:

Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>