[RFC PATCH 0/6] linkage: better symbol aliasing

[Mark Rutland]

This series aims to make symbol aliasing simpler and more consistent.
The basic idea is to replace SYM_FUNC_START_ALIAS(alias) and
SYM_FUNC_END_ALIAS(alias) with a new SYM_FUNC_ALIAS(alias, name), so
that e.g.

    SYM_FUNC_START(func)
    SYM_FUNC_START_ALIAS(alias1)
    SYM_FUNC_START_ALIAS(alias2)
        ... asm insns ...
    SYM_FUNC_END(func)
    SYM_FUNC_END_ALIAS(alias1)
    SYM_FUNC_END_ALIAS(alias2)
    EXPORT_SYMBOL(alias1)
    EXPORT_SYMBOL(alias2)

... can become:

    SYM_FUNC_START(name)
        ... asm insns ...
    SYM_FUNC_END(name)

    SYM_FUNC_ALIAS(alias1, func)
    EXPORT_SYMBOL(alias1)

    SYM_FUNC_ALIAS(alias2, func)
    EXPORT_SYMBOL(alias2)

This avoids repetition and hopefully make it easier to ensure
consistency (e.g. so each function has a single canonical name and
associated metadata).

I'm sending this as an RFC since I want to check:

a) People are happy with the idea in principle.

b) People are happy with the implementation within <linux/linkage.h>.

... and I haven't yet converted the headers under tools/, which is
largely a copy+paste job.

I've build+boot tested arm64 and x86 defconfig without issues, and I've
pushed the series to my `linkage/alias-rework` branch on git.kernel.org,
atop v5.16-rc3:

  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mark/linux.git linkage/alias-rework
  https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mark/linux.git/log/?h=linkage/alias-rework

Thanks,
Mark.

Mark Rutland (6):
  linkage: add SYM_{ENTRY,START,END}_AT()
  linkage: add SYM_FUNC_{LOCAL_,}ALIAS()
  arm64: remove __dma_*_area() aliases
  arm64: clean up symbol aliasing
  x86: clean up symbol aliasing
  linkage: remove START/END ALIAS macros

 Documentation/asm-annotations.rst  | 11 ++--
 arch/arm64/include/asm/linkage.h   | 24 ---------
 arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/cache.S    |  5 +-
 arch/arm64/lib/clear_page.S        |  5 +-
 arch/arm64/lib/copy_page.S         |  5 +-
 arch/arm64/lib/memchr.S            |  5 +-
 arch/arm64/lib/memcmp.S            |  6 +--
 arch/arm64/lib/memcpy.S            | 21 ++++----
 arch/arm64/lib/memset.S            | 12 +++--
 arch/arm64/lib/strchr.S            |  6 ++-
 arch/arm64/lib/strcmp.S            |  6 +--
 arch/arm64/lib/strlen.S            |  6 +--
 arch/arm64/lib/strncmp.S           |  8 +--
 arch/arm64/lib/strnlen.S           |  6 ++-
 arch/arm64/lib/strrchr.S           |  5 +-
 arch/arm64/mm/cache.S              | 59 +++++++++-----------
 arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_32.S |  3 +-
 arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S |  3 +-
 arch/x86/lib/memcpy_64.S           | 10 ++--
 arch/x86/lib/memmove_64.S          |  4 +-
 arch/x86/lib/memset_64.S           |  6 +--
 include/linux/linkage.h            | 86 ++++++++++++++++++------------
 22 files changed, 146 insertions(+), 156 deletions(-)

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