linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86/asm: Provide a Kconfig symbol for disabling old assembly annotations

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Message-ID: <20200430164226.GF25258@willie-the-truck>
Date:   Thu, 30 Apr 2020 17:42:26 +0100
From:   Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>
To:     Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
Cc:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, x86@...nel.org,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/asm: Provide a Kconfig symbol for disabling old
 assembly annotations

On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 07:24:02PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> As x86 was converted to use the modern SYM_ annotations for assembly ifdefs
> were added to remove the generic definitions of the old style annotations
> on x86. Rather than collect a list of architectures in the ifdefs as more
> architectures are converted over provide a Kconfig symbol for this and
> update x86 to use it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
> ---
> 
> arm64 will all being well be able to use this shortly.

Just for the record (already discussed with Boris off-list), I'm going to
queue this in the arm64 tree by pulling the x86/asm branch from -tip.

Thanks,

Will