[PATCH] compiler.h: avoid escaped section names

[PATCH] compiler.h: avoid escaped section names

[Nick Desaulniers]

The stringification operator, `#`, in the preprocessor escapes strings.
For example, `# "foo"` becomes `"\"foo\""`.  GCC and Clang differ in how
they treat section names that contain \".

The portable solution is to not use a string literal with the
preprocessor stringification operator.

In this case, since __section unconditionally uses the stringification
operator, we actually want the more verbose
__attribute__((__section__())).

Link: https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42950
Fixes: commit e04462fb82f8 ("Compiler Attributes: remove uses of __attribute__ from compiler.h")
Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
---
 include/linux/compiler.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/compiler.h b/include/linux/compiler.h
index 92ef163a7479..ac45f6d40d39 100644
--- a/include/linux/compiler.h
+++ b/include/linux/compiler.h
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ void ftrace_likely_update(struct ftrace_likely_data *f, int val,
 	extern typeof(sym) sym;					\
 	static const unsigned long __kentry_##sym		\
 	__used							\
-	__section("___kentry" "+" #sym )			\
+	__attribute__((__section__("___kentry+" #sym)))		\
 	= (unsigned long)&sym;
 #endif
 
-- 
2.28.0.709.gb0816b6eb0-goog

Re: [PATCH] compiler.h: avoid escaped section names

[Arvind Sankar]

On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 12:43:18PM -0700, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> The stringification operator, `#`, in the preprocessor escapes strings.
> For example, `# "foo"` becomes `"\"foo\""`.  GCC and Clang differ in how
> they treat section names that contain \".
> 
> The portable solution is to not use a string literal with the
> preprocessor stringification operator.
> 
> In this case, since __section unconditionally uses the stringification
> operator, we actually want the more verbose
> __attribute__((__section__())).
> 
> Link: https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42950
> Fixes: commit e04462fb82f8 ("Compiler Attributes: remove uses of __attribute__ from compiler.h")
> Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
> ---
>  include/linux/compiler.h | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/compiler.h b/include/linux/compiler.h
> index 92ef163a7479..ac45f6d40d39 100644
> --- a/include/linux/compiler.h
> +++ b/include/linux/compiler.h
> @@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ void ftrace_likely_update(struct ftrace_likely_data *f, int val,
>  	extern typeof(sym) sym;					\
>  	static const unsigned long __kentry_##sym		\
>  	__used							\
> -	__section("___kentry" "+" #sym )			\
> +	__attribute__((__section__("___kentry+" #sym)))		\
>  	= (unsigned long)&sym;
>  #endif
>  
> -- 
> 2.28.0.709.gb0816b6eb0-goog
> 

There was this previous mini-thread:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200629205448.GA1474367@rani.riverdale.lan/
and this older one:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190904181740.GA19688@gmail.com/

Just for my own curiosity: how does KENTRY actually get used? grep
doesn't show any hits, and the thread from 2019 was actually going to
drop it if I read it right, and also just remove stringification from
the __section macro.

There are still other instances that need to be fixed, right?

Thanks.

Re: [PATCH] compiler.h: avoid escaped section names

[Arvind Sankar]

On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 04:08:01PM -0400, Arvind Sankar wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 12:43:18PM -0700, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> > The stringification operator, `#`, in the preprocessor escapes strings.
> > For example, `# "foo"` becomes `"\"foo\""`.  GCC and Clang differ in how
> > they treat section names that contain \".
> > 
> > The portable solution is to not use a string literal with the
> > preprocessor stringification operator.
> > 
> > In this case, since __section unconditionally uses the stringification
> > operator, we actually want the more verbose
> > __attribute__((__section__())).
> > 
> > Link: https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42950
> > Fixes: commit e04462fb82f8 ("Compiler Attributes: remove uses of __attribute__ from compiler.h")
> > Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
> > ---
> >  include/linux/compiler.h | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/include/linux/compiler.h b/include/linux/compiler.h
> > index 92ef163a7479..ac45f6d40d39 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/compiler.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/compiler.h
> > @@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ void ftrace_likely_update(struct ftrace_likely_data *f, int val,
> >  	extern typeof(sym) sym;					\
> >  	static const unsigned long __kentry_##sym		\
> >  	__used							\
> > -	__section("___kentry" "+" #sym )			\
> > +	__attribute__((__section__("___kentry+" #sym)))		\
> >  	= (unsigned long)&sym;
> >  #endif
> >  
> > -- 
> > 2.28.0.709.gb0816b6eb0-goog
> > 
> 
> There was this previous mini-thread:
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200629205448.GA1474367@rani.riverdale.lan/
> and this older one:
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190904181740.GA19688@gmail.com/
> 
> Just for my own curiosity: how does KENTRY actually get used? grep
> doesn't show any hits, and the thread from 2019 was actually going to
> drop it if I read it right, and also just remove stringification from
> the __section macro.
> 
> There are still other instances that need to be fixed, right?
> 
> Thanks.

Ignore the last question, I see you have separate patches for the rest.

Re: [PATCH] compiler.h: avoid escaped section names

[Nick Desaulniers]

On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 1:08 PM Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 12:43:18PM -0700, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> > The stringification operator, `#`, in the preprocessor escapes strings.
> > For example, `# "foo"` becomes `"\"foo\""`.  GCC and Clang differ in how
> > they treat section names that contain \".
> >
> > The portable solution is to not use a string literal with the
> > preprocessor stringification operator.
> >
> > In this case, since __section unconditionally uses the stringification
> > operator, we actually want the more verbose
> > __attribute__((__section__())).
> >
> > Link: https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42950
> > Fixes: commit e04462fb82f8 ("Compiler Attributes: remove uses of __attribute__ from compiler.h")
> > Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
> > ---
> >  include/linux/compiler.h | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/include/linux/compiler.h b/include/linux/compiler.h
> > index 92ef163a7479..ac45f6d40d39 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/compiler.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/compiler.h
> > @@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ void ftrace_likely_update(struct ftrace_likely_data *f, int val,
> >       extern typeof(sym) sym;                                 \
> >       static const unsigned long __kentry_##sym               \
> >       __used                                                  \
> > -     __section("___kentry" "+" #sym )                        \
> > +     __attribute__((__section__("___kentry+" #sym)))         \
> >       = (unsigned long)&sym;
> >  #endif
> >
> > --
> > 2.28.0.709.gb0816b6eb0-goog
> >
>
> There was this previous mini-thread:
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200629205448.GA1474367@rani.riverdale.lan/
> and this older one:
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190904181740.GA19688@gmail.com/
>
> Just for my own curiosity: how does KENTRY actually get used? grep
> doesn't show any hits, and the thread from 2019 was actually going to
> drop it if I read it right, and also just remove stringification from
> the __section macro.

Oh, sorry I didn't respond on that thread; I could have sworn I ran a
grep for KENTRY back then.

$ git log -S KENTRY

Doesn't seem to get any hits, so I'm not sure what I should use for a
proper Fixes tag in the event we just remove it.  Let me grab lunch,
then I'll send a v2 that just removes the KENTRY block.  Thanks for
the reminder!

And I don't remember what ever happened to Joe's script for treewide
conversion of __section.
-- 
Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers

Re: [PATCH] compiler.h: avoid escaped section names

[Nick Desaulniers]

On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 1:25 PM Nick Desaulniers
<ndesaulniers@google.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 1:08 PM Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 12:43:18PM -0700, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> > > The stringification operator, `#`, in the preprocessor escapes strings.
> > > For example, `# "foo"` becomes `"\"foo\""`.  GCC and Clang differ in how
> > > they treat section names that contain \".
> > >
> > > The portable solution is to not use a string literal with the
> > > preprocessor stringification operator.
> > >
> > > In this case, since __section unconditionally uses the stringification
> > > operator, we actually want the more verbose
> > > __attribute__((__section__())).
> > >
> > > Link: https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42950
> > > Fixes: commit e04462fb82f8 ("Compiler Attributes: remove uses of __attribute__ from compiler.h")
> > > Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
> > > ---
> > >  include/linux/compiler.h | 2 +-
> > >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/include/linux/compiler.h b/include/linux/compiler.h
> > > index 92ef163a7479..ac45f6d40d39 100644
> > > --- a/include/linux/compiler.h
> > > +++ b/include/linux/compiler.h
> > > @@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ void ftrace_likely_update(struct ftrace_likely_data *f, int val,
> > >       extern typeof(sym) sym;                                 \
> > >       static const unsigned long __kentry_##sym               \
> > >       __used                                                  \
> > > -     __section("___kentry" "+" #sym )                        \
> > > +     __attribute__((__section__("___kentry+" #sym)))         \
> > >       = (unsigned long)&sym;
> > >  #endif
> > >
> > > --
> > > 2.28.0.709.gb0816b6eb0-goog
> > >
> >
> > There was this previous mini-thread:
> > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200629205448.GA1474367@rani.riverdale.lan/
> > and this older one:
> > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190904181740.GA19688@gmail.com/
> >
> > Just for my own curiosity: how does KENTRY actually get used? grep
> > doesn't show any hits, and the thread from 2019 was actually going to
> > drop it if I read it right, and also just remove stringification from
> > the __section macro.
>
> Oh, sorry I didn't respond on that thread; I could have sworn I ran a
> grep for KENTRY back then.
>
> $ git log -S KENTRY

Added by
b67067f1176df6ee727450546b58704e4b588563 ?

>
> Doesn't seem to get any hits, so I'm not sure what I should use for a
> proper Fixes tag in the event we just remove it.  Let me grab lunch,
> then I'll send a v2 that just removes the KENTRY block.  Thanks for
> the reminder!
>
> And I don't remember what ever happened to Joe's script for treewide
> conversion of __section.
> --
> Thanks,
> ~Nick Desaulniers



-- 
Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers

Re: [PATCH] compiler.h: avoid escaped section names

[Arvind Sankar]

On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 01:30:22PM -0700, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 1:25 PM Nick Desaulniers
> <ndesaulniers@google.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 1:08 PM Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 12:43:18PM -0700, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> > > > The stringification operator, `#`, in the preprocessor escapes strings.
> > > > For example, `# "foo"` becomes `"\"foo\""`.  GCC and Clang differ in how
> > > > they treat section names that contain \".
> > > >
> > > > The portable solution is to not use a string literal with the
> > > > preprocessor stringification operator.
> > > >
> > > > In this case, since __section unconditionally uses the stringification
> > > > operator, we actually want the more verbose
> > > > __attribute__((__section__())).
> > > >
> > > > Link: https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42950
> > > > Fixes: commit e04462fb82f8 ("Compiler Attributes: remove uses of __attribute__ from compiler.h")
> > > > Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
> > > > ---
> > > >  include/linux/compiler.h | 2 +-
> > > >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > > >
> > > > diff --git a/include/linux/compiler.h b/include/linux/compiler.h
> > > > index 92ef163a7479..ac45f6d40d39 100644
> > > > --- a/include/linux/compiler.h
> > > > +++ b/include/linux/compiler.h
> > > > @@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ void ftrace_likely_update(struct ftrace_likely_data *f, int val,
> > > >       extern typeof(sym) sym;                                 \
> > > >       static const unsigned long __kentry_##sym               \
> > > >       __used                                                  \
> > > > -     __section("___kentry" "+" #sym )                        \
> > > > +     __attribute__((__section__("___kentry+" #sym)))         \
> > > >       = (unsigned long)&sym;
> > > >  #endif
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > 2.28.0.709.gb0816b6eb0-goog
> > > >
> > >
> > > There was this previous mini-thread:
> > > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200629205448.GA1474367@rani.riverdale.lan/
> > > and this older one:
> > > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190904181740.GA19688@gmail.com/
> > >
> > > Just for my own curiosity: how does KENTRY actually get used? grep
> > > doesn't show any hits, and the thread from 2019 was actually going to
> > > drop it if I read it right, and also just remove stringification from
> > > the __section macro.
> >
> > Oh, sorry I didn't respond on that thread; I could have sworn I ran a
> > grep for KENTRY back then.
> >
> > $ git log -S KENTRY
> 
> Added by
> b67067f1176df6ee727450546b58704e4b588563 ?
> 

Yeah but nothing seems to have used it. I assume for LTO we use some
other technique to mark functions as used?

Re: [PATCH] compiler.h: avoid escaped section names

[Nick Desaulniers]

On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 1:47 PM Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 01:30:22PM -0700, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 1:25 PM Nick Desaulniers
> > <ndesaulniers@google.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 1:08 PM Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 12:43:18PM -0700, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> > > > > The stringification operator, `#`, in the preprocessor escapes strings.
> > > > > For example, `# "foo"` becomes `"\"foo\""`.  GCC and Clang differ in how
> > > > > they treat section names that contain \".
> > > > >
> > > > > The portable solution is to not use a string literal with the
> > > > > preprocessor stringification operator.
> > > > >
> > > > > In this case, since __section unconditionally uses the stringification
> > > > > operator, we actually want the more verbose
> > > > > __attribute__((__section__())).
> > > > >
> > > > > Link: https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42950
> > > > > Fixes: commit e04462fb82f8 ("Compiler Attributes: remove uses of __attribute__ from compiler.h")
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
> > > > > ---
> > > > >  include/linux/compiler.h | 2 +-
> > > > >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > > > >
> > > > > diff --git a/include/linux/compiler.h b/include/linux/compiler.h
> > > > > index 92ef163a7479..ac45f6d40d39 100644
> > > > > --- a/include/linux/compiler.h
> > > > > +++ b/include/linux/compiler.h
> > > > > @@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ void ftrace_likely_update(struct ftrace_likely_data *f, int val,
> > > > >       extern typeof(sym) sym;                                 \
> > > > >       static const unsigned long __kentry_##sym               \
> > > > >       __used                                                  \
> > > > > -     __section("___kentry" "+" #sym )                        \
> > > > > +     __attribute__((__section__("___kentry+" #sym)))         \
> > > > >       = (unsigned long)&sym;
> > > > >  #endif
> > > > >
> > > > > --
> > > > > 2.28.0.709.gb0816b6eb0-goog
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > There was this previous mini-thread:
> > > > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200629205448.GA1474367@rani.riverdale.lan/
> > > > and this older one:
> > > > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190904181740.GA19688@gmail.com/
> > > >
> > > > Just for my own curiosity: how does KENTRY actually get used? grep
> > > > doesn't show any hits, and the thread from 2019 was actually going to
> > > > drop it if I read it right, and also just remove stringification from
> > > > the __section macro.
> > >
> > > Oh, sorry I didn't respond on that thread; I could have sworn I ran a
> > > grep for KENTRY back then.
> > >
> > > $ git log -S KENTRY
> >
> > Added by
> > b67067f1176df6ee727450546b58704e4b588563 ?
> >
>
> Yeah but nothing seems to have used it. I assume for LTO we use some
> other technique to mark functions as used?

Nicholas, do you recall why KENTRY was added in
b67067f1176df6ee727450546b58704e4b588563?  May I remove that and the
addition to INIT_DATA from that commit?

-- 
Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers

Re: [PATCH] compiler.h: avoid escaped section names

[Joe Perches]

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On Tue, 2020-09-29 at 13:25 -0700, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> And I don't remember what ever happened to Joe's script for treewide
> conversion of __section.

Nor do I but here (attached) is the script.

My recollection is there was some problem with mscros
with ## concatenation in some converted uses.


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Re: [PATCH] compiler.h: avoid escaped section names

[Joe Perches]

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On Wed, 2020-09-30 at 08:40 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Tue, 2020-09-29 at 13:25 -0700, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> > And I don't remember what ever happened to Joe's script for treewide
> > conversion of __section.
> 
> Nor do I but here (attached) is the script.
> 
> My recollection is there was some problem with mscros
> with ## concatenation in some converted uses.

I believe I have it sorted now and I've attached
a new version of the script.

It runs against -next (or any other tree) and
produces a single commit.

It converts all the various uses of
	__attribute__((section(<foo>)))
to
	__section("<foo>")

changes the various macros with token pasting uses
I believe appropriately as well.

Please give it a spin.

There were 4 problems as below.

With these 4 items fixed, the build works (seems to at least)

1:  compiler_attributes.h needed to unquote the __section__(#S)
    the old automated patch didn't apply as the file had changed

diff --git a/include/linux/compiler_attributes.h b/include/linux/compiler_attri>
index ea7b756b1c8f..b6fef9033c0b 100644
--- a/include/linux/compiler_attributes.h
+++ b/include/linux/compiler_attributes.h
@@ -254,7 +254,7 @@
  *   gcc: https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Common-Variable-Attributes.html#i>
  * clang: https://clang.llvm.org/docs/AttributeReference.html#section-declspec>
  */
-#define __section(S)                    __attribute__((__section__(#S)))
+#define __section(section)              __attribute__((__section__(section)))

2:  The script needed to use different token pasting for
    __section(foo##bar##baz)

    The script converted this to
	__section("foo" ## bar ## "baz")
    instead this needed to be
	__section("foo" #bar "baz")

3:  scripts/mod/modpost.c needed quoting of its internal __section uses:

diff --git a/scripts/mod/modpost.c b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
index 69341b36f271..f882ce0d9327 100644
--- a/scripts/mod/modpost.c
+++ b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
@@ -2254,7 +2254,7 @@ static void add_header(struct buffer *b, struct module *mod)
        buf_printf(b, "MODULE_INFO(name, KBUILD_MODNAME);\n");
        buf_printf(b, "\n");
        buf_printf(b, "__visible struct module __this_module\n");
-       buf_printf(b, "__section(.gnu.linkonce.this_module) = {\n");
+       buf_printf(b, "__section(\".gnu.linkonce.this_module\") = {\n");
        buf_printf(b, "\t.name = KBUILD_MODNAME,\n");
        if (mod->has_init)
                buf_printf(b, "\t.init = init_module,\n");
@@ -2308,7 +2308,7 @@ static int add_versions(struct buffer *b, struct module *mod)
 
        buf_printf(b, "\n");
        buf_printf(b, "static const struct modversion_info ____versions[]\n");
-       buf_printf(b, "__used __section(__versions) = {\n");
+       buf_printf(b, "__used __section(\"__versions\") = {\n");

4: tools/ was excluded, but now needs conversion

 tools/include/linux/objtool.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/include/linux/objtool.h b/tools/include/linux/objtool.h
index ab82c793c897..577f51436cf9 100644
--- a/tools/include/linux/objtool.h
+++ b/tools/include/linux/objtool.h
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ struct unwind_hint {
  * For more information, see tools/objtool/Documentation/stack-validation.txt.
  */
 #define STACK_FRAME_NON_STANDARD(func) \
-	static void __used __section(.discard.func_stack_frame_non_standard) \
+	static void __used __section(".discard.func_stack_frame_non_standard") \
 		*__func_stack_frame_non_standard_##func = func
 
 #else /* __ASSEMBLY__ */

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[Joe Perches]

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Here's a new version that does not update arch/powerpc/boot/ files
to avoid the defective conversions that Nick found in powerpc.



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Re: [PATCH] compiler.h: avoid escaped section names

[Miguel Ojeda]

Hi Nick,

On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 9:43 PM Nick Desaulniers
<ndesaulniers@google.com> wrote:
>
> The stringification operator, `#`, in the preprocessor escapes strings.
> For example, `# "foo"` becomes `"\"foo\""`.  GCC and Clang differ in how
> they treat section names that contain \".
>
> The portable solution is to not use a string literal with the
> preprocessor stringification operator.
>
> In this case, since __section unconditionally uses the stringification
> operator, we actually want the more verbose
> __attribute__((__section__())).

Let's add a comment about this in the code -- otherwise we/someone
will convert it back without noticing. Also we could add another on
`__section` itself warning about this.

> Link: https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42950

Is there a link / have we opened a bug on GCC's side too?

Thanks!

Cheers,
Miguel

RE: [PATCH] compiler.h: avoid escaped section names

[David Laight]

From: Nick Desaulniers
> Sent: 29 September 2020 20:43
> 
> The stringification operator, `#`, in the preprocessor escapes strings.
> For example, `# "foo"` becomes `"\"foo\""`.  GCC and Clang differ in how
> they treat section names that contain \".
> 
> The portable solution is to not use a string literal with the
> preprocessor stringification operator.
> 
> In this case, since __section unconditionally uses the stringification
> operator, we actually want the more verbose
> __attribute__((__section__())).
> 
> Link: https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42950
> Fixes: commit e04462fb82f8 ("Compiler Attributes: remove uses of __attribute__ from compiler.h")
> Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
> ---
>  include/linux/compiler.h | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/compiler.h b/include/linux/compiler.h
> index 92ef163a7479..ac45f6d40d39 100644
> --- a/include/linux/compiler.h
> +++ b/include/linux/compiler.h
> @@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ void ftrace_likely_update(struct ftrace_likely_data *f, int val,
>  	extern typeof(sym) sym;					\
>  	static const unsigned long __kentry_##sym		\
>  	__used							\
> -	__section("___kentry" "+" #sym )			\
> +	__attribute__((__section__("___kentry+" #sym)))		\
>  	= (unsigned long)&sym;
>  #endif

I guess what this really wants is:
	__section(__kentry+##sym)
but that generates an error because you can only use ## between
variable names.

Perhaps someone shouldn't have tries to be clever and not put
an unusual character in the section name.

	David

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