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

[Catalin Marinas]

On Mon, Dec 06, 2021 at 12:47:09PM +0000, Mark Rutland wrote:
> 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'm happy with the approach and acked the arm64 patches for the record.
Not sure how/when this series will get into mainline.

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Catalin