On Sat, Jul 18, 2015 at 09:16:58AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Jul 17, 2015 09:57, "Josh Poimboeuf" <jpoim...@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > +
> > +#define STACKVALIDATE_IGNORE_INSN                              \
> > +       ".Ltemp" __stringify(__LINE__) ":;"                     \
> 
> This is wrong. It won't work for people who do multiple of these on the
> same line (think macros etc).
> 
> For temporary labels, you should just use numeric labels. Think Pascal
> style ones. Then use "b" or "f" after the number when referring to it to
> say "back" or "forward" reference.
> 
> So the code for an endless loop with a true temporary label looks like:
> 
>    1:   code
>          jmp 1b
> 
> and a branch over would look like
> 
>           jne 7f
>         .. code ...
>     7:   ...
> 
> and now you can have multiple of these truly temp labels without ever
> getting errors from having a label redefined.

Yeah, I think I'll change the C macro to do that.

However for asm macros you have to worry about collisions.  For example:

.macro FOO
        1: ...
.endm

1:      ...
        FOO
        jmp 1b

It would jump to "1" in the macro instead of the "1" before the macro.

So for the asm version of the macro I ended up using Andy's idea of using "\@"
to get a unique identifier:

.macro STACKVALIDATE_IGNORE_INSN
        .if CONFIG_STACK_VALIDATION
                .Ltemp_\@:
                .pushsection __stackvalidate_ignore_insn, "a"
                _ASM_ALIGN
                .long .Ltemp_\@ - .
                .popsection
        .endif
.endm


-- 
Josh
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