Re: [PATCH] pop previous section in alternative.c

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Thu Apr 10 2008 - 11:01:47 EST


On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 07:46:25AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, 10 Apr 2008, Andi Kleen wrote:
> >
> > So in summary valid section patterns are either
> > .section / .previous or .pushsection .section .popsection
>
> The thing is, we'd be much better off with some sanity checking in the
> assembler.
>
> Which is likely not going to happen - oh well.

A simple way to detect it on the assembler level would be checking
that the section is the same after #NO_APP as before #APP

-Andi
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