linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] linux/export: fix reference to exported functions for parisc64

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Message-ID: <122c0f7d-8f76-0f88-e12e-90a50478ec38@bell.net>
Date:   Tue, 5 Sep 2023 18:14:33 -0400
From:   John David Anglin <dave.anglin@...l.net>
To:     Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>,
        linux-parisc@...r.kernel.org, Helge Deller <deller@....de>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org,
        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] linux/export: fix reference to exported functions for
 parisc64

On 2023-09-05 3:08 p.m., Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> I checked the assembler output, and noticed function references are
> prefixed with P%, so the situation in parisc64 is similar to ia64.
Function references are prefixed with P% when they occur in data like the following:

     .dword    P%func

This causes the generation of a function descriptor.   The assembler and linker can't handle the P%
prefix in other situations.

Dave

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