Re: [RFC v1 0/8] x86/init: Linux linker tables

From	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [RFC v1 0/8] x86/init: Linux linker tables
Date	2016-01-21 21:30 +0100
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On 12/17/15 20:40, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>>
>> const struct
>> foo__attribute__((used,section(".rodata.tbl.tablename.0"))) tablename[0];
>>
>> const struct
>> foo__attribute__((used,section(".rodata.tbl.tablename.999")))
>> tablename__end[0];
>>

(Over)thinking about this some more, I suggest using the empty string
for the start and "~" for the end.  And, yes, I did check that ~ works
as part of a section name.

Something that confuses me is that gcc seems to give these sections the
"aw" attributes which makes as complain.  This might be a gcc bug.
Worst case we have to use an assembly statement to create these
sections; it isn't a big deal and shouldn't make it any more
architecture-specific.

	-hpa

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Re: [RFC v1 0/8] x86/init: Linux linker tables "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> - 2016-01-21 21:30 +0100
  Re: [RFC v1 0/8] x86/init: Linux linker tables "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@suse.com> - 2016-01-21 21:40 +0100
    Re: [RFC v1 0/8] x86/init: Linux linker tables Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> - 2016-01-21 22:40 +0100
      Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC v1 0/8] x86/init: Linux linker tables "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@suse.com> - 2016-01-21 23:30 +0100
        Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC v1 0/8] x86/init: Linux linker tables "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> - 2016-01-22 01:00 +0100
          Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC v1 0/8] x86/init: Linux linker tables "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@suse.com> - 2016-01-22 01:30 +0100
      Re: [RFC v1 0/8] x86/init: Linux linker tables Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org> - 2016-01-22 09:20 +0100
  Re: [RFC v1 0/8] x86/init: Linux linker tables Michael Matz <matz@suse.de> - 2016-01-22 14:50 +0100
    Re: [RFC v1 0/8] x86/init: Linux linker tables "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> - 2016-01-22 20:10 +0100
      Re: [RFC v1 0/8] x86/init: Linux linker tables "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@do-not-panic.com> - 2016-01-22 23:00 +0100

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