linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 05/14] ia64: prefer __section from compiler

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Message-Id: <20190827204007.201890-6-ndesaulniers@google.com>
Date:   Tue, 27 Aug 2019 13:39:58 -0700
From:   Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
To:     miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com
Cc:     sedat.dilek@...il.com, will@...nel.org, jpoimboe@...hat.com,
        naveen.n.rao@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, davem@...emloft.net,
        paul.burton@...s.com, clang-built-linux@...glegroups.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 05/14] ia64: 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.

Instead, we should:
1. Prefer __section(.section_name_no_quotes).
2. Only use __attribute__((__section(".section"))) when creating the
section name via C preprocessor (see the definition of __define_initcall
in arch/um/include/shared/init.h).

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

See the discussions in:
Link: https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42950
Link: https://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=156412960619946&w=2
Reported-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@...il.com>
Suggested-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
---
 arch/ia64/include/asm/cache.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/ia64/include/asm/cache.h b/arch/ia64/include/asm/cache.h
index 4eb6f742d14f..7decf91ca11a 100644
--- a/arch/ia64/include/asm/cache.h
+++ b/arch/ia64/include/asm/cache.h
@@ -25,6 +25,6 @@
 # define SMP_CACHE_BYTES	(1 << 3)
 #endif
 
-#define __read_mostly __attribute__((__section__(".data..read_mostly")))
+#define __read_mostly __section(.data..read_mostly)
 
 #endif /* _ASM_IA64_CACHE_H */
-- 
2.23.0.187.g17f5b7556c-goog