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Date:   Mon, 26 Aug 2019 17:19:43 -0700
From:   Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
To:     Paul Burton <paul.burton@...s.com>
Cc:     "akpm@...ux-foundation.org" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        "sedat.dilek@...il.com" <sedat.dilek@...il.com>,
        "jpoimboe@...hat.com" <jpoimboe@...hat.com>,
        "yhs@...com" <yhs@...com>,
        "miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com" <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com>,
        "clang-built-linux@...glegroups.com" 
        <clang-built-linux@...glegroups.com>,
        Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>,
        James Hogan <jhogan@...nel.org>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@...com>,
        Song Liu <songliubraving@...com>,
        "linux-mips@...r.kernel.org" <linux-mips@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "bpf@...r.kernel.org" <bpf@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/16] mips: prefer __section from compiler_attributes.h

On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 2:38 AM Paul Burton <paul.burton@...s.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Nick,
>
> On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 02:50:41PM -0700, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> > Reported-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@...il.com>
> > Suggested-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
>
> It would be good to add a commit message, even if it's just a line
> repeating the subject & preferably describing the motivation.
>
> > ---
> >  arch/mips/include/asm/cache.h | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/mips/include/asm/cache.h b/arch/mips/include/asm/cache.h
> > index 8b14c2706aa5..af2d943580ee 100644
> > --- a/arch/mips/include/asm/cache.h
> > +++ b/arch/mips/include/asm/cache.h
> > @@ -14,6 +14,6 @@
> >  #define L1_CACHE_SHIFT               CONFIG_MIPS_L1_CACHE_SHIFT
> >  #define L1_CACHE_BYTES               (1 << L1_CACHE_SHIFT)
> >
> > -#define __read_mostly __attribute__((__section__(".data..read_mostly")))
> > +#define __read_mostly __section(.data..read_mostly)
> >
> >  #endif /* _ASM_CACHE_H */
> > --
> > 2.23.0.rc1.153.gdeed80330f-goog
>
> I'm not copied on the rest of the series so I'm not sure what your
> expectations are about where this should be applied. Let me know if
> you'd prefer this to go through mips-next, otherwise:
>
>     Acked-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@...s.com>

Thanks Paul, going to send this up via Miguel's tree, if you don't
mind.  Updating my series now.  (Will probably avoid running
get_maintainer.pl on every patch...too hard to cc everyone on the
whole series).
-- 
Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers

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