linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 20/22] x86,word-at-a-time: Remove .fixup usage

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Date:   Mon, 8 Nov 2021 10:53:31 -0800
From:   Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:     Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>, x86@...nel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mark.rutland@....com,
        dvyukov@...gle.com, seanjc@...gle.com, pbonzini@...hat.com,
        mbenes@...e.cz
Subject: Re: [PATCH 20/22] x86,word-at-a-time: Remove .fixup usage

On Mon, Nov 8, 2021 at 10:29 AM Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Nov 08, 2021 at 08:47:11AM -0800, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 05, 2021 at 06:10:43PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > > +static inline unsigned long load_unaligned_zeropad(const void *addr)
> > > +{
> > > +   unsigned long offset, data;
> > > +   unsigned long ret;
> > > +
> > > +   asm_volatile_goto(
> > > +           "1:     mov %[mem], %[ret]\n"
> > > +
> > > +           _ASM_EXTABLE(1b, %l[do_exception])
> > > +
> > > +           : [ret] "=&r" (ret)
> > > +           : [mem] "m" (*(unsigned long *)addr)
> > > +           : : do_exception);
> > > +
> > > +out:
> > > +   return ret;
> > > +
> > > +do_exception: __cold;
> >
> > Clang doesn't approve of this label annotation:
> >
> > In file included from fs/dcache.c:186:
> > ./arch/x86/include/asm/word-at-a-time.h:99:15: warning: '__cold__' attribute only applies to functions [-Wignored-attributes]
> > do_exception: __cold;
>
> /me mutters something best left unsaid these days...
>
> Nick, how come?

Looks like https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47487.
-- 
Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers