Re: [PATCH 1/2] vmlinux.lds.h: fix BOUNDED_SECTION_(PRE|POST)_LABEL macros

[jim . cromie]

On Wed, Nov 16, 2022 at 11:30 PM Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Nov 16, 2022 at 05:20:21PM -0700, Jim Cromie wrote:
> > commit foo added BOUNDED_SECTION_(PRE|POST)_LABEL macros,
> > encapsulating the basic boilerplate to: KEEP/pack records into a
> > section, and to mark the begin and end of the section with
> > linker-symbols.
> >
> > But it tried to do extra, adding KEEP(*(.gnu.linkonce.##_sec_)) to
> > optionally reserve a header record in front of the data.  It wrongly
> > placed the KEEP after the linker-symbol starting the section,
> > so if a header was added, it would wind up in the data.
> >
> > Putting the KEEP in the "correct" place proved brittle, and too clever
> > by half.  The obvious safe fix is to remove the KEEP, and provide
> > separate macros to do the extra work.
> >
> > While here, the macro var-names: _s_, _e_ are nearly invisible, change
> > them to more obvious names: _BEGIN_, _END_
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h | 14 ++++++--------
> >  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>
> This change fails to apply to my driver-core-next tree.  Are you sure it
> is correct?
>

meh - it seems I missed a failure of a  git commit --amend,
since im sure I edited a fixes: tag into this commit-msg
or something :-/

I'll send an update shortly,  heres the HEAD of it:

b8b7f5a7a624 (HEAD -> bounded-5) vmlinux.lds.h: add HEADERED_SECTION_* macros
d712ed004b64 vmlinux.lds.h: fix BOUNDED_SECTION_(PRE|POST)_LABEL macros
f613facc82cf (driver-core/driver-core-testing,
driver-core/driver-core-next) mfd: vexpress-sysreg: Fix resource
compound literal assignments
2f465b921bb8 vmlinux.lds.h: place optional header space in BOUNDED_SECTION
9b351be25360 vmlinux.lds.h: add BOUNDED_SECTION* macros


> confused,
>
> greg k-h