On 10/27/2013 08:34 PM, Chen Gang wrote: > 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. > > :-) > In "include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h", I guess "*(...)" also can express an individual line, is it generic enough to arc, too? Thanks. >> -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 -- 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