GCC unescapes escaped string section names while Clang does not. Because
__section uses the `#` stringification operator for the section name, it
doesn't need to be escaped.
Instead, we should:
1. Prefer __section(.section_name_no_quotes).
2. Only use __attribute__((__section__(".section"))) when creating the
section name via C preprocessor (see the definition of __define_initcall
in arch/um/include/shared/init.h).
This antipattern was found with:
$ grep -e __section\(\" -e __section__\(\" -r
See the discussions in:
Link: https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42950
Link: https://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=156412960619946&w=2
Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/619
Acked-by: Paul Burton <paul.bur...@mips.com>
Reported-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.di...@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoim...@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulni...@google.com>
---
arch/mips/include/asm/cache.h | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/mips/include/asm/cache.h b/arch/mips/include/asm/cache.h
index 8b14c2706aa5..af2d943580ee 100644
--- a/arch/mips/include/asm/cache.h
+++ b/arch/mips/include/asm/cache.h
@@ -14,6 +14,6 @@
#define L1_CACHE_SHIFT CONFIG_MIPS_L1_CACHE_SHIFT
#define L1_CACHE_BYTES (1 << L1_CACHE_SHIFT)
-#define __read_mostly __attribute__((__section__(".data..read_mostly")))
+#define __read_mostly __section(.data..read_mostly)
#endif /* _ASM_CACHE_H */
--
2.23.0.187.g17f5b7556c-goog
