Re: git pull request for tip/tracing/urgent

[Ingo Molnar]

* Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > This bit:
> > 
> >   	".section .fixup, \"ax\"\n"
> >  	"4: movl $1, %[faulted]\n"
> >  	"   jmp 3b\n"
> >  	".previous\n"
> > 
> > Can be thought of as an 'embedded' or 'nested' section - the '.previous'
> > directive jumps back to whatever section we were in before. This can be
> > nested multiple times too:
> > 
> >    .section A
> >    [...]
> >      .section B
> >      [...]
> >         .section C
> >         [...]
> >         .previous
> >      [...]
> >      .previous
> >    [...]
> >    .previous
> 
> That will result in...
> 
>  A->B->C->B->C->B
> 
> .pushsection and .popsection should be used for nesting, right?
> 
> Thanks.

hm ... doh, yes. I think we even had a bug in this area.

Why is it implemented like this? These semantics seem to make no sense.

	Ingo
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