Re: [PATCH] treewide: Convert macro and uses of __section(foo) to __section("foo")

From: Guenter Roeck
Date: Mon Oct 26 2020 - 15:36:58 EST


On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 07:36:07PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> Use a more generic form for __section that requires quotes to avoid
> complications with clang and gcc differences.
>
> Remove the quote operator # from compiler_attributes.h __section macro.
>
> Convert all unquoted __section(foo) uses to quoted __section("foo").
> Also convert __attribute__((section("foo"))) uses to __section("foo")
> even if the __attribute__ has multiple list entry forms.
>
> Conversion done using a script:
>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/75393e5ddc272dc7403de74d645e6c6e0f4e70eb.camel@xxxxxxxxxxx/2-convert_section.pl
>
> Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@xxxxxxxxxx>

s390 (all builds):

Error log:
error: section .boot.preserved.data differs between vmlinux and arch/s390/boot/compressed/vmlinux
make[2]: *** [arch/s390/boot/section_cmp.boot.preserved.data] Error 1
make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
error: section .boot.data differs between vmlinux and arch/s390/boot/compressed/vmlinux
make[2]: *** [arch/s390/boot/section_cmp.boot.data] Error 1
make[1]: *** [bzImage] Error 2
make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
make: *** [__sub-make] Error 2

Reverting this patch fixes the problem.

Guenter