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Subject[tip:core/objtool] objtool: Add a comment for the unreachable annotation macros
Commit-ID:  d0c2e691d1cbe43662df3a08a4933f13acc352c3
Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/d0c2e691d1cbe43662df3a08a4933f13acc352c3
Author: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
AuthorDate: Mon, 6 Nov 2017 07:17:37 -0600
Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
CommitDate: Tue, 7 Nov 2017 10:48:22 +0100

objtool: Add a comment for the unreachable annotation macros

Add a comment for the unreachable annotation macros to explain their
purpose and the '__COUNTER__' label hack.

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1570e48d9f87e0fc6f0126c32e7e1de6e109cb67.1509974104.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
---
include/linux/compiler.h | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/compiler.h b/include/linux/compiler.h
index 2027104..f8734fc 100644
--- a/include/linux/compiler.h
+++ b/include/linux/compiler.h
@@ -187,6 +187,11 @@ void ftrace_likely_update(struct ftrace_likely_data *f, int val,

/* Unreachable code */
#ifdef CONFIG_STACK_VALIDATION
+/*
+ * These macros help objtool understand GCC code flow for unreachable code.
+ * The __COUNTER__ based labels are a hack to make each instance of the macros
+ * unique, to convince GCC not to merge duplicate inline asm statements.
+ */
#define annotate_reachable() ({ \
asm("%c0:\n\t" \
".pushsection .discard.reachable\n\t" \
\
 
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