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

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Wed Dec 15 03:28:05 PST 2021


On Mon, 6 Dec 2021 12:47:09 +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)
> 
> [...]

Applied to arm64 (for-next/misc), thanks!

[3/6] arm64: remove __dma_*_area() aliases
      https://git.kernel.org/arm64/c/c2c529b27ceb

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Catalin




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