The first patch introduces the PROC macro in the generic header file include/linux/linkage.h to annotate functions in assembly files. This is a first step to fully annotate functions (procedures) in .S-files. The PROC macro complements the already existing and being used ENDPROC macro. The generic implementation of PROC is exactly the same as ENTRY. The goal is to annotate functions, at least those called from C code, with PROC at the beginning and ENDPROC at the end. This is for the benefit of debugging and tracing. The second patch introduces a framework to check for nesting problems and missing annotations by overriding ENTRY/END and PROC/ENDPROC in x86-specific code. It should not be applied at this time, because it will just cause the build to fail due to existing annotation problems. I intend to fix the annotations for the x86 assembly files in the comming months and resubmit this second patch if this work is comming to an end. The first patch touches generic code, but I think it is trivial enough that it can be introduced via the x86 tree. Greetings, Alexander -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
