On Mon, 14 Aug 2017, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:

On 14 August 2017 at 17:18, Nicolas Pitre [off-list ref] wrote:

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On Mon, 14 Aug 2017, Dave Martin wrote:

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On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 04:38:02PM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:

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That's a trick, actually, which I failed to add a comment for.

Shame shame shame !

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We use .arm sections in the thumb2 kernel, and using these macros
there would result in the wrong offset to be used. Adding the .w
suffix forces an error in the assembler which even results in a fairly
meaningful error message complaining about using .w in ARM code.

Ewww... I think it'd be best to add a comment explaining that.

Absolutely!

Yeah, mea culpa.

But if people have better ideas how to avoid this situation, I am all ears.

Just document it.  ;-)


Nicolas