[U-Boot] [PATCH 2/4] arm: add %function attribute to assembly functions

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Tue Feb 21 05:44:09 CET 2012


Hi Mike,

On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 8:19 PM, Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Monday 20 February 2012 16:53:40 Simon Glass wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 12:07 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
>> > On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 02:15:30AM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>> >> On Saturday 18 February 2012 17:03:59 Simon Glass wrote:
>> >> > On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 5:57 AM, Aneesh V wrote:
>> >> > > -.globl reset_cpu
>> >> > > +.type  reset_cpu, %function
>> >> > > +.global        reset_cpu
>> >> >
>> >> > Should we introduce a macro to deal with this rather than writing it
>> >> > out each time? EXPORT()?
>> >>
>> >> we have it already with the linux/linkage.h header :)
>> >
>> > Well, unless my tree is out of date (or stuff is in-flight) we don't
>> > have the full compliment here.  We have <linux/linkage.h> for all and
>> > <asm/linkage.h> for bfin.  That said, yes, we should grab at least the
>> > ARM version and make use of ENTRY/END_FUNC ala the kernel.  I'm behind
>> > on my "convert __attribute__((...)) to __attr" series already or I'd say
>> > more :)
>>
>> In case one of you is going to look at this, can we try to use
>> asm-generic as much as possible?
>
> i don't know what you mean ... we already have linux/linkage.h with sane
> defaults for pretty much everyone.  the Blackfin asm/linkage.h is an empty file
> to satisfy building.

That's fine then, thanks.

> -mike

Regards
Simon


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