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| author | Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> | 2023-10-05 22:57:34 +0200 |
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| committer | Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org> | 2023-10-06 17:08:47 +0300 |
| commit | 7d6904bf26b96ef087514cb7a8c50b62a4911c99 (patch) | |
| tree | 2feaff8495d88c2102dc2e017b7afc5c58db02d6 /include/linux/compiler_types.h | |
| parent | 9418edf8ff01e7a4904aac1aca4864ecdea37593 (diff) | |
| parent | 22061bfc57fe08c77141dc876b4af75603c4d61d (diff) | |
Merge wireless into wireless-next
Resolve several conflicts, mostly between changes/fixes in
wireless and the locking rework in wireless-next. One of
the conflicts actually shows a bug in wireless that we'll
want to fix separately.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/compiler_types.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/compiler_types.h | 28 |
1 files changed, 28 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/compiler_types.h b/include/linux/compiler_types.h index 547ea1ff806e..c523c6683789 100644 --- a/include/linux/compiler_types.h +++ b/include/linux/compiler_types.h @@ -106,6 +106,34 @@ static inline void __chk_io_ptr(const volatile void __iomem *ptr) { } #define __cold #endif +/* + * On x86-64 and arm64 targets, __preserve_most changes the calling convention + * of a function to make the code in the caller as unintrusive as possible. This + * convention behaves identically to the C calling convention on how arguments + * and return values are passed, but uses a different set of caller- and callee- + * saved registers. + * + * The purpose is to alleviates the burden of saving and recovering a large + * register set before and after the call in the caller. This is beneficial for + * rarely taken slow paths, such as error-reporting functions that may be called + * from hot paths. + * + * Note: This may conflict with instrumentation inserted on function entry which + * does not use __preserve_most or equivalent convention (if in assembly). Since + * function tracing assumes the normal C calling convention, where the attribute + * is supported, __preserve_most implies notrace. It is recommended to restrict + * use of the attribute to functions that should or already disable tracing. + * + * Optional: not supported by gcc. + * + * clang: https://clang.llvm.org/docs/AttributeReference.html#preserve-most + */ +#if __has_attribute(__preserve_most__) && (defined(CONFIG_X86_64) || defined(CONFIG_ARM64)) +# define __preserve_most notrace __attribute__((__preserve_most__)) +#else +# define __preserve_most +#endif + /* Builtins */ /* |