From de93245c00a44578ae73964b7e36607d04fed5b3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Aditya Srivastava Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2021 17:21:57 -0800 Subject: checkpatch: add warning for avoiding .L prefix symbols in assembly files objtool requires that all code must be contained in an ELF symbol. Symbol names that have a '.L' prefix do not emit symbol table entries, as they have special meaning for the assembler. '.L' prefixed symbols can be used within a code region, but should be avoided for denoting a range of code via 'SYM_*_START/END' annotations. Add a new check to emit a warning on finding the usage of '.L' symbols for '.S' files, if it denotes range of code via SYM_*_START/END annotation pair. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210123190459.9701-1-yashsri421@gmail.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210112210154.GI4646@sirena.org.uk Signed-off-by: Aditya Srivastava Suggested-by: Mark Brown Acked-by: Joe Perches Acked-by: Nick Desaulniers Cc: Aditya Srivastava Cc: Lukas Bulwahn Cc: Dwaipayan Ray Cc: Josh Poimboeuf Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) (limited to 'scripts') diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index a04df2657d49..d8793bdbc492 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -3599,6 +3599,13 @@ sub process { } } +# check for .L prefix local symbols in .S files + if ($realfile =~ /\.S$/ && + $line =~ /^\+\s*(?:[A-Z]+_)?SYM_[A-Z]+_(?:START|END)(?:_[A-Z_]+)?\s*\(\s*\.L/) { + WARN("AVOID_L_PREFIX", + "Avoid using '.L' prefixed local symbol names for denoting a range of code via 'SYM_*_START/END' annotations; see Documentation/asm-annotations.rst\n" . $herecurr); + } + # check we are in a valid source file C or perl if not then ignore this hunk next if ($realfile !~ /\.(h|c|pl|dtsi|dts)$/); -- cgit v1.2.3