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Date:   Sun, 24 Jul 2022 20:41:01 -0500
From:   Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
To:     Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Cc:     Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
        linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc/purgatory: Omit use of bin2c
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On Sun, Jun 26, 2022 at 07:40:37AM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> The .incbin assembler directive is much faster than bin2c + $(CC).

And perhaps more importantly it is simpler and less clumsy.

> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/purgatory/kexec-purgatory.S
> @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
> +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
> +
> +	.section .rodata, "a"
> +
> +	.align	8
> +kexec_purgatory:
> +	.globl	kexec_purgatory
> +	.incbin	"arch/powerpc/purgatory/purgatory.ro"
> +.Lkexec_purgatroy_end:

Typo here (s/ro/or/)

> +
> +	.align	8
> +kexec_purgatory_size:
> +	.globl	kexec_purgatory_size
> +	.quad	.Lkexec_purgatroy_end - kexec_purgatory

And here again ofc.

Looks good to me otherwise, nice cleanup :-)

Reviewed-by: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>


Segher