linux-kernel - [PATCH 12/16] arm64: prefer __section from compiler

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Date:   Mon, 12 Aug 2019 14:50:45 -0700
From:   Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
To:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:     sedat.dilek@...il.com, jpoimboe@...hat.com, yhs@...com,
        miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com,
        clang-built-linux@...glegroups.com,
        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@...com>,
        Song Liu <songliubraving@...com>,
        Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Enrico Weigelt <info@...ux.net>,
        Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@....com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Masayoshi Mizuma <m.mizuma@...fujitsu.com>,
        Shaokun Zhang <zhangshaokun@...ilicon.com>,
        Alexios Zavras <alexios.zavras@...el.com>,
        Allison Randal <allison@...utok.net>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, bpf@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 12/16] arm64: prefer __section from compiler_attributes.h

GCC unescapes escaped string section names while Clang does not. Because
__section uses the `#` stringification operator for the section name, it
doesn't need to be escaped.

This antipattern was found with:
$ grep -e __section\(\" -e __section__\(\" -r

Reported-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@...il.com>
Suggested-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
---
 arch/arm64/include/asm/cache.h     | 2 +-
 arch/arm64/kernel/smp_spin_table.c | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/cache.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/cache.h
index 64eeaa41e7ca..43da6dd29592 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/cache.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/cache.h
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ static inline u32 cache_type_cwg(void)
 	return (read_cpuid_cachetype() >> CTR_CWG_SHIFT) & CTR_CWG_MASK;
 }
 
-#define __read_mostly __attribute__((__section__(".data..read_mostly")))
+#define __read_mostly __section(.data..read_mostly)
 
 static inline int cache_line_size_of_cpu(void)
 {
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/smp_spin_table.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/smp_spin_table.c
index 76c2739ba8a4..c8a3fee00c11 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/smp_spin_table.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/smp_spin_table.c
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 #include <asm/smp_plat.h>
 
 extern void secondary_holding_pen(void);
-volatile unsigned long __section(".mmuoff.data.read")
+volatile unsigned long __section(.mmuoff.data.read)
 secondary_holding_pen_release = INVALID_HWID;
 
 static phys_addr_t cpu_release_addr[NR_CPUS];
-- 
2.23.0.rc1.153.gdeed80330f-goog