[PATCH 1/6] linkage: add generic GLOBAL() macro
From: mark.rutland@arm.com (Mark Rutland)
Date: 2018-11-15 22:41:58
Subsystem:
the rest · Maintainer:
Linus Torvalds
From: mark.rutland@arm.com (Mark Rutland)
Date: 2018-11-15 22:41:58
Subsystem:
the rest · Maintainer:
Linus Torvalds
Declaring a global symbol in assembly is tedious, error-prone, and
painful to read. While ENTRY() exists, this is supposed to be used for
function entry points, and this affects alignment in a potentially
undesireable manner.
Instead, let's add a generic GLOBAL() macro for this, as x86 added
locally in commit:
95695547a7db44b8 ("x86: asm linkage - introduce GLOBAL macro")
... thus allowing us to use this more freely in the kernel.
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: AKASHI Takahiro <redacted>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <redacted>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Torsten Duwe <redacted>
Cc: Will Deacon <redacted>
---
include/linux/linkage.h | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/linux/linkage.h b/include/linux/linkage.h
index 7c47b1a471d4..7e020782ade2 100644
--- a/include/linux/linkage.h
+++ b/include/linux/linkage.h@@ -79,6 +79,12 @@ #define ALIGN __ALIGN #define ALIGN_STR __ALIGN_STR +#ifndef GLOBAL +#define GLOBAL(name) \ + .globl name ASM_NL \ + name: +#endif + #ifndef ENTRY #define ENTRY(name) \ .globl name ASM_NL \
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