linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v8 06/28] x86/asm/crypto: annotate local functions

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Message-ID: <20190817091733.GB15364@zn.tnic>
Date:   Sat, 17 Aug 2019 11:17:33 +0200
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:     Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
Cc:     tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...hat.com, hpa@...or.com,
        x86@...nel.org, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 06/28] x86/asm/crypto: annotate local functions

On Thu, Aug 08, 2019 at 12:38:32PM +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> Use the newly added SYM_FUNC_START_LOCAL to annotate starts of all
> functions which do not have ".globl" annotation, but their ends are
> annotated by ENDPROC. This is needed to balance ENDPROC for tools that
> generate debuginfo.
> 
> To be symmetric, we also convert their ENDPROCs to the new SYM_FUNC_END.

All those functions look like they could be made local symbols by
prepending their names with ".L" so that they disappear from the
vmlinux symtable too.

Thx.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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