On 10/27/2013 03:28 PM, Vineet Gupta wrote: > On 10/26/2013 07:08 PM, Chen Gang wrote: >> On 10/25/2013 01:10 PM, Vineet Gupta wrote: >>> Eh ! My untested patch was broken but not because of what you mentioned. >>> >>> For ARC, the ; negating the newline annotation. So the following works (backquote >>> is new line for ARC) >>> >>> diff --git a/arch/arc/include/asm/linkage.h b/arch/arc/include/asm/linkage.h >>> index 0283e9e44e0d..b3eea2999322 100644 >>> --- a/arch/arc/include/asm/linkage.h >>> +++ b/arch/arc/include/asm/linkage.h >>> @@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ >>> #ifndef __ASM_LINKAGE_H >>> #define __ASM_LINKAGE_H >>> >>> +#define __ARCH_NL ` >>> + >>> #ifdef __ASSEMBLY__ >>> >>> >>> diff --git a/include/linux/linkage.h b/include/linux/linkage.h >>> index d3e8ad23a8e0..969e70ad231a 100644 >>> --- a/include/linux/linkage.h >>> +++ b/include/linux/linkage.h >>> @@ -6,6 +6,10 @@ >>> #include <linux/export.h> >>> #include <asm/linkage.h> >>> >>> +#ifndef __ARCH_NL >>> +#define __ARCH_NL ; >>> +#endif >>> + >>> #ifdef __cplusplus >>> #define CPP_ASMLINKAGE extern "C" >>> #else >>> @@ -75,7 +79,7 @@ >>> >>> #ifndef ENTRY >>> #define ENTRY(name) \ >>> - .globl name; \ >>> + .globl name __ARCH_NL \ >>> ALIGN; \ >> >> Do we also need consider about "ALIGN;"? > > Right - as I said already, above was not a formal patch but a RFC whether we are > on right track. The proper fix will have to audit all such places. > > >>> name: >>> #endif >>> >> >> For next-20130927 tree, do we also need consider about WEAK, ENDPROC? > > Indeed. > > >> I am not quite sure about it, but I will try. > > So you volunteer to send out a patch base don __ARCH_NL I proposed above ? > > OK, I will/should try. Hmm... I am 'almost' a volunteer: my company support what I have done for Public Open Source, they treat it as important thing. Now you are mainly focusing on arc, and I want/try to focus on kernel wide. This patch belongs to kernel wide, and at least now, nobody rejects me for it, so I will/should try. >> Now, I am just analyzing >> another issue -- maybe the last issue for allmodconfig under arc, which >> may be related with this patch, the errors are: >> >> 1 Building modules, stage 2. >> 2 MODPOST 2994 modules >> 3 ERROR: "__st_r13_to_r20" [sound/usb/snd-usbmidi-lib.ko] undefined! > > Yes we know about this already. This is to do with libgcc linkage. The fix is non > trivial - I'll get back to you on this. For now disable CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE. > OK, thank you for your valuable information in time, at least, it saves my time resources, after pass this issue, hope our arc can pass allmodconfig. :-) > -Vineet > -- > 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 > Thanks. -- Chen Gang -- Chen Gang -- 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