linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 1/3] linkage.h: Align weak symbols.

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Date:   Thu, 20 Sep 2018 16:56:29 +0300
From:   Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@...tuozzo.com>
To:     Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Kyeongdon Kim <kyeongdon.kim@....com>,
        Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>,
        Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>,
        Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>, kasan-dev@...glegroups.com,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@...tuozzo.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 1/3] linkage.h: Align weak symbols.

Since WEAK() supposed to be used instead of ENTRY() to define weak
symbols, but unlike ENTRY() it doesn't have ALIGN directive.
It seems there is no actual reason to not have, so let's add
ALIGN to WEAK() too.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@...tuozzo.com>
---
 include/linux/linkage.h | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/linkage.h b/include/linux/linkage.h
index d7618c41f74c..7c47b1a471d4 100644
--- a/include/linux/linkage.h
+++ b/include/linux/linkage.h
@@ -90,6 +90,7 @@
 #ifndef WEAK
 #define WEAK(name)	   \
 	.weak name ASM_NL   \
+	ALIGN ASM_NL \
 	name:
 #endif
 
-- 
2.16.4