* Andy Lutomirski [off-list ref] wrote:

On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 2:17 AM Jiri Slaby [off-list ref] wrote:

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GLOBAL had several meanings and is going away. In this patch, convert
all the inner function labels marked with GLOBAL to use SYM_INNER_LABEL
instead.

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Note that retint_user needs not be global, perhaps since commit
2ec67971facc ("x86/entry/64/compat: Remove most of the fast system call
machinery"), where entry_64_compat's caller was removed. So mark the
label as LOCAL.

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-GLOBAL(entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe)
+SYM_INNER_LABEL(entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe, SYM_L_GLOBAL)

I've missed all the context here.   I agree that GLOBAL is misleading, and
"inner label" is nice.  But this is a rather wordy macro.  Would:

INNER_LABEL_GLOBAL(name)

be better?  (With just INNER_LABEL(name) for the local version?)

Please keep the SYM_ global namespace for all these symbol macros - but the rest 
of the name can be shortened.

Thanks,

	Ingo