linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH next-20200930] treewide: Convert macro and uses of __section(foo) to _

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Message-ID: <CAKwvOdmW4ZSo0yz9ZUjFhjzzDkNAghKYk_hxn9tvrKLBgCXx-A@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 5 Oct 2020 11:36:06 -0700
From:   Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
To:     Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:     Segher Boessenkool <segher@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>,
        Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@...il.com>,
        Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, rcu@...r.kernel.org,
        Clang-Built-Linux ML <clang-built-linux@...glegroups.com>,
        Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>,
        Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@...il.com>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
        linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH next-20200930] treewide: Convert macro and uses of
 __section(foo) to __section("foo")

On Thu, Oct 1, 2020 at 1:19 PM Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2020-10-01 at 14:39 -0500, Segher Boessenkool wrch/ote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 01, 2020 at 12:15:39PM +0200, Miguel Ojeda wrote:
> > > > So it looks like the best option is to exclude these
> > > > 2 files from conversion.
> > >
> > > Agreed. Nevertheless, is there any reason arch/powerpc/* should not be
> > > compiling cleanly with compiler.h? (CC'ing the rest of the PowerPC
> > > reviewers and ML).
> >
> > You need to #include compiler_types.h to get this #define?
>
> Actually no, you need to add
>
> #include <linux/compiler_attributes.h>
>
> to both files and then it builds properly.
>
> Ideally though nothing should include this file directly.

That's because Kbuild injects it via command line flag `-include`.
(Well, it injects compiler_types.h which includes this).  If part of
the tree reset KBUILD_CFLAGS, that `-include` gets dropped.  I don't
think there's anything wrong with manually including it and adding `-I
<path>` (capital i) if needed.

>
> > (The twice-defined thing is a warning, not an error.  It should be fixed
> > of course, but it is less important; although it may be pointing to a
> > deeper problem.)
> >
> >
> > Segher
>


-- 
Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers