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Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86/head_64.S: Rename start_cpu()

From Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86/head_64.S: Rename start_cpu()
Date 2017-03-07 12:00 +0100
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On Tue, Mar 07, 2017 at 10:06:38AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> The local labels syntax is silly, I always end up looking twice to make sense of 
> 'Ljump' or 'Lwhatever' ;-)
> 
> We cannot do anything about that - but we can name our symbols to work it around. 
> But the price is the extra underscore in the symbol name...

Sure, but other labels in this file don't have the preceding "_".

Perhaps we should agree on a convention for the local labels naming in
our asm and adhere to it...

Hmm.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

Good mailing practices for 400: avoid top-posting and trim the reply.

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[PATCH 1/2] x86/head_64.S: Rename start_cpu() Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2017-03-04 11:00 +0100
  [PATCH 2/2] x86/head_64.S: Pass struct boot_params' virtual address to C Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2017-03-04 11:00 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86/head_64.S: Pass struct boot_params' virtual  address to C Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2017-03-07 10:20 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86/head_64.S: Pass struct boot_params' virtual  address to C Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2017-03-07 12:00 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86/head_64.S: Rename start_cpu() Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2017-03-07 10:10 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86/head_64.S: Rename start_cpu() Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2017-03-07 12:00 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86/head_64.S: Rename start_cpu() Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2017-03-07 16:00 +0100
  [tip:x86/boot] x86/boot/64: Rename start_cpu() tip-bot for Borislav Petkov <tipbot@zytor.com> - 2017-03-07 14:10 +0100

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