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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/2] jump label: update for .39
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 01:04:01PM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-03-10 at 09:27 -0800, David Daney wrote:
> > On 03/10/2011 07:38 AM, Steven Rostedt wrote:
>
> > >> Can you explain what would prevent gcc from aligning these 3 pointers
> > >> (total of 24 bytes on 64-bit architectures) on 32-bytes ?
> >
> > I can:
> >
> > http://www.x86-64.org/documentation/abi.pdf Section 3.1.2:
> >
> > Aggregates and Unions
>
> Note, we are not dealing with C or arrays, but with inline assembly, and
> the linker.
>
> +static __always_inline bool arch_static_branch(struct jump_label_key *key)
> +{
> + asm goto("1:\tnop\n\t"
> + "nop\n\t"
> + ".pushsection __jump_table, \"aw\"\n\t"
> + WORD_INSN " 1b, %l[l_yes], %0\n\t"
> + ".popsection\n\t"
> + : : "i" (key) : : l_yes);
> + return false;
> +l_yes:
> + return true;
> +}
>
>
> That push/pop section part creates the structure we are talking about.
> It's made up of three pointers. The address of the nop, the address of
> the label l_yes and the address of the key.
>
> Now its up to the linker to decide where to place that element. Can we
> guarantee that it will always be on an 8 byte boundery?
> Hmm, I wonder if we could add a .ALIGN sizeof(long) before that?
>

we can. Sparc does it, see: arch/sparc/include/asm/jump_label.h.

So I guess it would be .align 8 for 64-bit and .align 4 for 32-bit...

-Jason


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