Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 01/10] x86: assembly, ENTRY for fn, GLOBAL for data

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On March 1, 2017 2:27:54 AM PST, Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>* Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 1 Mar 2017, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>> > 
>> > * Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > 
>> > > This is a start of series to unify use of ENTRY, ENDPROC, GLOBAL,
>END,
>> > > and other macros across x86. When we have all this sorted out,
>this will
>> > > help to inject DWARF unwinding info by objtool later.
>> > > 
>> > > So, let us use the macros this way:
>> > > * ENTRY -- start of a global function
>> > > * ENDPROC -- end of a local/global function
>> > > * GLOBAL -- start of a globally visible data symbol
>> > > * END -- end of local/global data symbol
>> > 
>> > So how about using macro names that actually show the purpose,
>instead of 
>> > importing all the crappy, historic, essentially randomly chosen
>debug symbol macro 
>> > names from the binutils and older kernels?
>> > 
>> > Something sane, like:
>> > 
>> >    SYM__FUNCTION_START
>> 
>> Sane would be:
>> 
>>              SYM_FUNCTION_START
>> 
>> The double underscore is just not giving any value.
>
>So the double underscore (at least in my view) has two advantages:
>
>1) it helps separate the prefix from the postfix.
>
>I.e. it's a 'symbols' namespace, and a 'function start', not the
>'start' of a 
>'symbol function'.
>
>2) It also helps easy greppability.
>
>Try this in latest -tip:
>
>  git grep e820__
>
>To see all the E820 API calls - with no false positives!
>
>'git grep e820_' on the other hand is a lot less reliable...
>
>But no strong feelings either way, I just try to sneak in these small
>namespace 
>structure tricks when nobody's looking! ;-)
>
>Thanks,
>
>       Ingo

This seems needlessly verbose to me and clutters the code.

How about:

PROC..ENDPROC, LOCALPROC..ENDPROC and DATA..ENDDATA.  Clear, unambiguous and 
balanced.


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