linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kbuild: provide include/asm/asm-prototypes.h for ARM

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Date:   Wed, 19 Oct 2016 16:52:06 +0200
From:   Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.com>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>
Cc:     Adam Borowski <kilobyte@...band.pl>,
        Omar Sandoval <osandov@...ndov.com>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        adobriyan@...il.com, sfr@...b.auug.org.au, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk,
        linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arch@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kbuild: provide include/asm/asm-prototypes.h for ARM

Dne 17.10.2016 v 14:26 Arnd Bergmann napsal(a):
> This adds an asm/asm-prototypes.h header for ARM to fix the
> broken symbol versioning for symbols exported from assembler
> files.
> 
> In addition to the header, we have to do these other small
> changes:
> 
> - move the 'extern' declarations out of memset_io/memcpy_io
>   to make them visible to the symbol version generator
> - move the exports from bitops.h to {change,clear,set,...}bit.S
> - move the exports from csumpartialgeneric.S into the files
>   including it
> 
> I couldn't find the correct prototypes for the compiler builtins,
> so I went with the fake 'void f(void)' prototypes that we had
> before.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>

Hi Arnd,

just to make sure I'm looking at the right code - is this based on the
patch by Nick here: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9377783/?

Thanks,
Michal