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

From: Catalin Marinas
Date: Wed Dec 15 2021 - 06:28:17 EST


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